The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ...Mrs. Inchbald Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... better . The Lady Lurewell is divinely charming -right- -but then a thrust i ' the guts , or a Middlesex jury , is as ugly as the devil . Vizard . Ay , Sir Harry , ' twere a dangerous cast for a beau baronet to be tried by a parcel of ...
... better . The Lady Lurewell is divinely charming -right- -but then a thrust i ' the guts , or a Middlesex jury , is as ugly as the devil . Vizard . Ay , Sir Harry , ' twere a dangerous cast for a beau baronet to be tried by a parcel of ...
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... better humour than when I parted with you in the park this morning , your company won't be very agreeable . Colonel S. You're a happy man , Sir Harry , who are never out of humour . Can nothing move your gall , Sir Harry ? Sir H ...
... better humour than when I parted with you in the park this morning , your company won't be very agreeable . Colonel S. You're a happy man , Sir Harry , who are never out of humour . Can nothing move your gall , Sir Harry ? Sir H ...
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... is the rarest fool in na- ture - the devil he is ! -and as such have I used him . With all my heart , ' faith ! —I had no better way of let- ting you know that I lodge in Pall Mall - 32 [ ACT II . THE CONSTANT COUPLE .
... is the rarest fool in na- ture - the devil he is ! -and as such have I used him . With all my heart , ' faith ! —I had no better way of let- ting you know that I lodge in Pall Mall - 32 [ ACT II . THE CONSTANT COUPLE .
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... better pleased in all my life , by Jupiter . Colonel S. Well , Sir Harry , ' tis prudence to hide your concern , when there's no help for it . But , to be serious , now ; the lady has sent you back all your papers there- -I was so just ...
... better pleased in all my life , by Jupiter . Colonel S. Well , Sir Harry , ' tis prudence to hide your concern , when there's no help for it . But , to be serious , now ; the lady has sent you back all your papers there- -I was so just ...
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... better service . Come , come , madam ; though the wine makes me lisp , yet it has taught me to speak plainer . By all the dust of my ancient progenitors , I must this night rest in your arms . Ang . Nay , then - who waits there ? Enter ...
... better service . Come , come , madam ; though the wine makes me lisp , yet it has taught me to speak plainer . By all the dust of my ancient progenitors , I must this night rest in your arms . Ang . Nay , then - who waits there ? Enter ...
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AIMWELL Alderman Arch ARCHER better Brazen brother Cæsar Captain Plume Cato Cato's charms Cher child Clinch CLINCHER Colonel COVENT GARDEN d'ye dear death devil Dicky DORINDA Dugard DURETETE Enter Exeunt Exit father fellow Foig FOIGARD fool fortune gentleman GEORGE FARQUHAR Gipsey give guineas hand heart Heav'n honour hope Juba Jubilee Kite LADY DARLING Lady L ladyship Lookye lord Lucia Lucy Lurewell madam maid Marcia marry Melinda mistress never Numidian Old Mir on't Oriana pardon Parly Petit poor Portius Pr'ythee pray pretty Pshaw rogue Roman senate Rome Rose SCENE Scrub Sempronius serjeant Sir H sister Smug soul SULLEN sure sword Sylvia Syph Syphax talk tell thee there's thing thou thought thousand pounds twill virtue Vizard What's wife woman word Worthy
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Seite 59 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 59 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 58 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 17 - O'ercast with gloomy cares, and discontent ; Then tell me, Syphax, I conjure thee, tell me, What' are the thoughts that knit thy brow in frowns, And turn thine eye thus coldly on thy prince ? SYPHAX. 'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sun-shine in my face, , When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
Seite 7 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Seite 45 - ARCH. Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination. MRS.
Seite 30 - The resolution fits a Roman senate. But, Cato, lend me for a while thy patience, And condescend to hear a young man speak. My father, when some days before his death He...
Seite 20 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Seite 32 - Exacts severity from all our thoughts : It is not now a time to talk of aught But chains or conquest, liberty or death.
Seite 20 - His counsels bade me yield to thy directions: Then, Syphax, chide me in severest terms, Vent all thy passion, and I'll stand its shock, Calm and unruffled as a summer sea, When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.