The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces in the English Language, Band 1M. Polock, 1854 |
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... mean must we appear ? Ag . And who shall know it ? O. Wil . There is a kind of pride , a decent dignity , Due to ... means for its support are failing : VOL . I. 2 Were famine not as mortal as the sword , Your warmth might oe excus'd ...
... mean must we appear ? Ag . And who shall know it ? O. Wil . There is a kind of pride , a decent dignity , Due to ... means for its support are failing : VOL . I. 2 Were famine not as mortal as the sword , Your warmth might oe excus'd ...
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... mean ? Why do you look with such amazement on us ? Are these your transports for your son's return ? Where is my Wilmot ? Has he not been here ? Would he defer your happiness so long ; Or , could a habit so disguise your son , That you ...
... mean ? Why do you look with such amazement on us ? Are these your transports for your son's return ? Where is my Wilmot ? Has he not been here ? Would he defer your happiness so long ; Or , could a habit so disguise your son , That you ...
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... mean artifice : you are endeavouring to lessen Mr. Gayless in my opinion , because he has not paid you for ser- vices he had no occasion for . Kitty . Pay me , Madam ! I am sure I have very little occasion to be angry with Mr. Gayless ...
... mean artifice : you are endeavouring to lessen Mr. Gayless in my opinion , because he has not paid you for ser- vices he had no occasion for . Kitty . Pay me , Madam ! I am sure I have very little occasion to be angry with Mr. Gayless ...
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... mean ? [ Aside . Just . G. Oh , the supper by all means ; for I have eat nothing to signify since dinner . Sharp . Nor I , since last Monday was a fort- night . [ Aside . Gay . Pray , ladies , walk into the next room .-- Sharp get ...
... mean ? [ Aside . Just . G. Oh , the supper by all means ; for I have eat nothing to signify since dinner . Sharp . Nor I , since last Monday was a fort- night . [ Aside . Gay . Pray , ladies , walk into the next room .-- Sharp get ...
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... mean by affronting me ? -Let the scoundrel go ; I'll polish his brutality , I warrant you . Here's the best reformer of manners in the universe . [ Draws his sword . ] Let him go , I say . Sharp . So , so , you have done finely now ...
... mean by affronting me ? -Let the scoundrel go ; I'll polish his brutality , I warrant you . Here's the best reformer of manners in the universe . [ Draws his sword . ] Let him go , I say . Sharp . So , so , you have done finely now ...
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Aladin alguazil arms art thou Arvida Belvidera better bless Capt Castalio Cato Cham Char Clarinda colonel COVENT GARDEN curse dare dear death devil door Eger Enter Erit Euph Exeunt Exit eyes father Faulkland fear fellow fortune gentleman give hand happy hear heart Heaven honour hope husband Juba Kitty Lady leave live look lord Lucy Madam Malaprop marriage marry master MIRABEL Miss H mistress ne'er never night Nysa o'er passion Pertinax Philotas Phocion Pier pity poor Pr'ythee pray Raby Rackett Rand Re-enter Sackbut SCENE Selim servant Sir G Snacks soul speak Stuke sure sword Syphax tears tell thee there's thing thou art thou hast thought Timoleon Tony twas villain virtue what's wife wish woman wretch young Zounds
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Seite 393 - Sir, we are obliged to you. The servants can't miss the way ? Tony. No, no : but I tell you, though, the landlord is rich, and going to leave off business ; so he wants to be thought a gentleman, saving your presence, he ! he ! he ! He'll be for giving you his company ; and, ecod, if you mind him, he'll persuade you that his mother was an alderman, and his aunt a justice of peace. Land. A troublesome old blade, to be sure ; but a keeps as good wines and beds as any in the whole country.
Seite 393 - But tell me, George, where could I have learned that assurance you talk of ? My life has been chiefly spent in a college or an inn, in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teach men confidence. I don't know that I was ever familiarly acquainted with a single modest woman — except my mother — But among females of another class, you know — HAST.
Seite 251 - I passed this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; " The sons of public rapine were destroying." They told me, by the sentence of the law They had commission to seize all thy fortune : Nay, more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it. Here stood a ruffian, with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public...
Seite 441 - Thou art a fool ; In being out of office I am out of danger ; Where, if I were a justice, besides the trouble, I might or out of wilfulness or error Run myself finely into a premunire* And so become a prey to the informer.
Seite 403 - Young man, young man, from your father's letter to me, I was taught to expect a well-bred modest man, as a visitor here, but now I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully; but he will be down here presently...
Seite 293 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 390 - And am I to blame ? The poor boy was always too sickly to do any good. A school would be his death. When he comes...
Seite 392 - No, Sir ; but if you can inform us TONY. Why, gentlemen, if you know neither the road you are going, nor where you are, nor the road you came, the first thing I have to inform you is, that — you have lost your way.
Seite 250 - The honour of my house, you've done me wrong. You may remember (for I now will speak*, And urge its baseness) when you first came home From travel, with such hopes as made you...
Seite 349 - What the devil good can passion do? — Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! — There, you sneer again! don't provoke me! — but you rely upon the mildness of my temper — you do, you dog! you play upon the meekness of my disposition! — Yet take care — the patience of a saint may be overcome at last!