British Theatre, Volume 27J. Bell, 1792 - English drama |
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... shew you how fixed my resolu- tion is to be a keeper no longer , I mean to marry im- mediately . Tor . And cann't you avoid being press'd to death , like a felon who refuses to plead , without incurring a sentence of perpetual ...
... shew you how fixed my resolu- tion is to be a keeper no longer , I mean to marry im- mediately . Tor . And cann't you avoid being press'd to death , like a felon who refuses to plead , without incurring a sentence of perpetual ...
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... other view , than to shew me in strong colours to myself , as a very dirty fellow to the best wife in England . Capt . I am very easy . [ Aside . Enter SPRUCE . Spruce . Sir , there is an 42 A & 11 . THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES .
... other view , than to shew me in strong colours to myself , as a very dirty fellow to the best wife in England . Capt . I am very easy . [ Aside . Enter SPRUCE . Spruce . Sir , there is an 42 A & 11 . THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES .
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... Shew him up then . Spruce . Yes , sir . Capt . It may be on business , Belville ; I'll take my leave of you . ! Bel . O , by no means ; I can have no business which I desire to keep from you , though you are the arrant'st miser of your ...
... Shew him up then . Spruce . Yes , sir . Capt . It may be on business , Belville ; I'll take my leave of you . ! Bel . O , by no means ; I can have no business which I desire to keep from you , though you are the arrant'st miser of your ...
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... shew us the way . L [ Exeunt Miss Leeson and Lady Rachel . Mrs Bel . I'll prolong this mummery as much as possible , in hopes the manager may come . Lie E iij A & 111 . 53 THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES . Lady Rach. You had the concurrence of ...
... shew us the way . L [ Exeunt Miss Leeson and Lady Rachel . Mrs Bel . I'll prolong this mummery as much as possible , in hopes the manager may come . Lie E iij A & 111 . 53 THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES . Lady Rach. You had the concurrence of ...
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... Shew him in . ( Exit Ser . ] How he must rejoice to find his conjectures so fortunately realized . Enter Captain SAVAGE . Capt . So , madam , you have just escaped a sad ac- cident . Miss Wat And by that agreeable tone and counte- nance ...
... Shew him in . ( Exit Ser . ] How he must rejoice to find his conjectures so fortunately realized . Enter Captain SAVAGE . Capt . So , madam , you have just escaped a sad ac- cident . Miss Wat And by that agreeable tone and counte- nance ...
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affair Belville's better cann't Capt Captain Savage Char Charlotte comedy Connolly consent coxcomb creature Crow dare devil dost thou Egad Enter a Servant Enter General SAVAGE Exeunt Exit faith favour fellow folly fool fortune Frank Frankly gentleman Ghast give me leave glad Gran Granger hand happy hear heart honour hope humble servant husband Hyde-Park Lady Rach Lady Rachel Lady WRANGLE ladyship laugh Leech madam Maid marriage marry matter merit mind Miss Lees Miss Leeson Miss Wal Miss Walsingham never obliged passion poor pr'ythee pray pretty SCENE SCHOOL FOR WIVES secret sense sha'n't shew Sir Gilb Sir Gilbert sir Tor Soph Sophronia soul Spruce suppose sure talk tell Temp thee there's thing thou art thought thousand pounds Torrington troth wife Witling woman Wrang young Zounds
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Page 96 - I led her, blushing like the morn : all heaven, And happy constellations, on that hour Shed their selectest influence : the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star, On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.
Page 117 - The secret joys of sweet coition find. Not only man's imperial race, but they That wing the liquid air, or swim the sea, Or haunt the desert, rush into the flame : For Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.
Page 16 - Wai. The peculiarity of your father's temper, joined to my want of fortune, made it necessary for me to keep our engagements inviolably secret ; there is no merit, therefore, either in my prudence, or in my labouring assiduously to cultivate the good opinion of the general, since both were so necessary to my own happiness : don't despise me for this acknowledgment.
Page 106 - Gen. Let us detach a party for dresses immediately. Yet remember, Torrington, that the punctuality of evidence which is necessary in a court of law, is by no means requisite in a court of honour. Tor. Perhaps it would be more to the honour of your honourable courts if it was. [Exeunt.
Page 97 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure: for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 23 - Con. You will want a second, I suppose, in this affair; I stood second to my own brother, in the Fifteen Acres; and though that has made me detest the very thought of duelling ever since, yet if you want a friend I'll attend you to the field of death with a great deal of satisfaction.
Page 17 - ... be disputed, in matters of a domestic nature, than if they were delivered at the head of his regiment. Miss Wai. And yet, Mrs Tempest, who, you say, is as much a storm in her nature as her name, is disputing them eternally. Enter MR and MRS BELVILLE. Bel. Well, Miss Walsingham, have not we had a pretty morning's visitor ? Mia Wai.
Page 132 - That is degrading the dignity of letters exceedingly, as well as lessening the utility of the stage. — A good comedy is a capital effort of genius, and should therefore be directed to the noblest purposes. Miss IVal.
Page 125 - O, captain ! Gen. You take her as the greatest good which Heaven can send you, sirrah ; I take her as the greatest good which Heaven can send me : And now what have you to say to her i Miss Wai.
Page 32 - You must know that this morning we had a smart cannonading on Belville's account, and she threatens, as I told you before, to quit my house if I don't challenge him for taking away her niece. Tor. That fellow is the very devil among the women, and yet there isn'ta man in England fonder of his wife. Gen. Poh ! if the young minx hadn't surrendered to him, she would have capitulated to somebody else, and I shall at this time be doubly obliged to him, if hi!