The London Theatre: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Dramatic Pieces, Volume 9Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 - English drama |
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... what law has made these liberties less scandalous in a wife than in an unmarried woman ? Lady T. Why , the ... what's that to him ? As long as he loves her , to be sure , she can have nothing to complain of . Lord T. By heaven ...
... what law has made these liberties less scandalous in a wife than in an unmarried woman ? Lady T. Why , the ... what's that to him ? As long as he loves her , to be sure , she can have nothing to complain of . Lord T. By heaven ...
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... what's be- come of us . [ Exit . Man . It must be so - She sees I love her - yet with what unoffending decency she avoids an explanation ! How amiable is every hour of her conduct ! What a vile opinion have I had of the whole sex for ...
... what's be- come of us . [ Exit . Man . It must be so - She sees I love her - yet with what unoffending decency she avoids an explanation ! How amiable is every hour of her conduct ! What a vile opinion have I had of the whole sex for ...
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... what I have done , that you will say , sir , this is the wisest journey that ever I made in my life . Man . I ... what's what at Westminster- that's one thing . Man . Very well ! but what good is that to do you ? Sir F. Why not me ...
... what I have done , that you will say , sir , this is the wisest journey that ever I made in my life . Man . I ... what's what at Westminster- that's one thing . Man . Very well ! but what good is that to do you ? Sir F. Why not me ...
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... What a genteel easy manner he has ! [ Aside . Man . A very hopeful acquaintance I have made here . [ Aside . Enter SQUIRE RICHARD , with a wet brown Paper on his Face . Sir F. How naw , Dick ; what's the matter with thy forehead , lad ...
... What a genteel easy manner he has ! [ Aside . Man . A very hopeful acquaintance I have made here . [ Aside . Enter SQUIRE RICHARD , with a wet brown Paper on his Face . Sir F. How naw , Dick ; what's the matter with thy forehead , lad ...
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... What's the matter naw ? i Moody . Why , I'll tell your worship - before we were gotten to the street end , with the ... What have you to do , to wish us all in the country again , Mr. Lubber ? I hope we shall not go into the ...
... What's the matter naw ? i Moody . Why , I'll tell your worship - before we were gotten to the street end , with the ... What have you to do , to wish us all in the country again , Mr. Lubber ? I hope we shall not go into the ...
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Page 47 - Sir, I repeat it — if I please you in this affair, 'tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome ; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice, I own I should rather choose a wife of mine to have the usual number of limbs, and a limited quantity of back : and though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two,...
Page 24 - I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Page 15 - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. For my part, I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but I ha
Page 38 - What the devil's the matter with you ? Acres. Nothing, nothing, my dear friend — my dear Sir Lucius — but I — I — I don't feel quite so bold, • somehow, as I did.
Page 37 - Yes, Jack, the independence I was talking of is by a marriage— the fortune is saddled with a wife — but I suppose that makes no difference.
Page 18 - Hesperian curls — the front of Job himself ! — An eye, like March, to threaten at command ! — A station, like Harry Mercury, new — '* Something about kissing — on a hill— however, the similitude struck me directly.
Page 12 - Come, here's pen and paper. — [Sits down to write.] I would the ink were red! — Indite, I say indite! — How shall I begin? Odds bullets and blades! I'll write a good bold hand, however. Sir Luc.
Page 3 - Permit me to say, madam, that as I never yet have had the pleasure of seeing Miss Languish, my principal inducement in this affair at present is the honour of being allied to Mrs. Malaprop; of whose intellectual accomplishments, elegant manners, and unaffected learning, no tongue is silent. Mrs. Mai. Sir, you do me infinite honour! I beg, captain, you'll be seated. — [They sit.} Ah! few gentlemen, now-a-days, know how to value the ineffectual qualities in a woman!
Page 37 - Why — what difference does that make ? Odds life, sir ! if you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands.
Page 22 - If cold white mortals censure this great deed, Warn them, they judge not of superior beings, Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.