The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - 341 páginas |
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... natural in imitation , should only be resorted to occasionally . It were indeed to be wished , that wicked men , like the men in this comedy , would hold discourse ac- cording to their evil natures ; that the innocent and the unwary ...
... natural in imitation , should only be resorted to occasionally . It were indeed to be wished , that wicked men , like the men in this comedy , would hold discourse ac- cording to their evil natures ; that the innocent and the unwary ...
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... nature of me . As I hope to be saved , Valentine , I never exposed a woman , since I knew what woman was . Val . And yet you have conversed with several ? Tatt . To be free with you I have - I don't care if I own that - nay , more ( I'm ...
... nature of me . As I hope to be saved , Valentine , I never exposed a woman , since I knew what woman was . Val . And yet you have conversed with several ? Tatt . To be free with you I have - I don't care if I own that - nay , more ( I'm ...
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... nature . Uncle , I'm afraid you are not lord of the ascendant ! ha , ha , ha ! For . Well , jill - flirt , you are very pert — and always ridiculing that celestial science . Ang . Nay , uncle , don't be angry . - If you are , I'll reap ...
... nature . Uncle , I'm afraid you are not lord of the ascendant ! ha , ha , ha ! For . Well , jill - flirt , you are very pert — and always ridiculing that celestial science . Ang . Nay , uncle , don't be angry . - If you are , I'll reap ...
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... Nature has been provident only to bears and spiders ; the one has its nutriment in its own hands ; and the other spins its habitation out of its own entrails . Val . Fortune was provident enough to supply all the necessities of my nature ...
... Nature has been provident only to bears and spiders ; the one has its nutriment in its own hands ; and the other spins its habitation out of its own entrails . Val . Fortune was provident enough to supply all the necessities of my nature ...
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... nature , may press me to the immediate signing the deed of conveyance of my estate ; and I'll defer it as long as I can . Well , you'll come to a resolution . Ang . I cannot . Resolution must come to me , or I shall never have one ...
... nature , may press me to the immediate signing the deed of conveyance of my estate ; and I'll defer it as long as I can . Well , you'll come to a resolution . Ang . I cannot . Resolution must come to me , or I shall never have one ...
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Alcanor ALMERIA ALONZO Alphonso Angelica behold Bellamy better Body o'me canst Clar Clarinda COVENT GARDEN d'ye daughter dear death devil dost thou Enter JEREMY Epictetus Exeunt Exit JEREMY eyes faith father fear FORESIGHT fortune Frank Frankly Garcia give hand hear heart Heav'n Heli honour hope husband Jacintha King kiss lady Laura look lord Love for Love Lucetta madam Mahomet marry matter mean Mecca Mirvan Miss never night o'er Osmond Osmyn Palm Palmira passion Phar PHARON poor pow'r rage Ranger rogue Scand Scandal SCENE secret Sicily Siffredi Sigismunda Sir Sampson slave soul speak Strict Strictland Tancred Tatt Tattle tell THEATRES ROYAL thee there's thing thou art thou hast thought Trapl tyrant Valentine virtue what's WILLIAM CONGREVE woman young Zaph Zaphna Zara
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Página 56 - Ang. Mr. Scandal, you can't think me guilty of so much inhumanity, as not to be concerned for a man I must own myself obliged to. Pray tell me the truth. Scand. Faith, madam, I wish telling a lie would mend the matter. But this is no new effect of an unsuccessful passion. Ang. [ Aside.] I know not what to think ; — Yet I should be vexed to have a trick put upon me — May I not see him?
Página 4 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Página 17 - Val. No; he has sent me the hardest conditions in the world. You have heard of a booby brother of mine that was sent to sea three years ago? This brother my father hears is landed; whereupon he very affectionately sends me word, if I will make a deed of conveyance of my right to his estate after his death to my younger brother, he will immediately furnish me with four thousand [10 pounds to pay my debts, and make my fortune.
Página 37 - By the provision that's made for me, you might have begot me too. Nay, and to tell your worship another truth, I believe you did, for I find I was born with those same whoreson appetites too, that my master speaks of. Sir Samp. Why, look you there now.
Página 83 - Here take your young mistress, and lock her up presently, till farther orders from me. — Not a word, hussy. Do what I bid you; no reply; away! And bid Robin make ready to give an account of his plate and linen, d'ye hear : begone when I bid you. Mrs. Fore. What is the matter, husband? Fore. Tis not convenient to tell you now.
Página 52 - O my son ! from the blind dotage Of a father's fondness these ills arose; For thee I've been ambitious, base, and bloody: For thee I've...
Página 84 - I'm sure it is as I tell you. Scand. 'Sdeath ! it is a jest. I can't believe it. Ben. Look you, friend ; it is nothing to me, whether you believe it or no. What I say is true, d'ye see; they are married, or just going to be married, I know not which.
Página 77 - None of my ancestors married till fifty, yet they begot sons and daughters till fourscore. I am of your patriarchs; I, a branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.
Página 90 - You would all have the reward of love ; but few have the constancy to stay till it becomes your due. Men are generally hypocrites and infidels, they pretend to worship, but have neither zeal nor faith; how few, like Valentine, would persevere even to martyrdom, and sacrifice their interest to their constancy! In admiring me you misplace the novelty : — The miracle to-day is, that we find A lover true : not that a woman's kind.
Página 28 - I'm glad of it ! — And so I have ; that may be good luck in troth, in troth it may, very good luck- nay, I have had some omens: I got out of bed backwards too this morning, without premeditation ; pretty good that too • but then I stumbled coming down stairs, and met a weasel ; bad omens those : some bad, some good, our lives are chequered : mirth and sorrow, want and plenty, night and day, make up our time. — But in troth I am pleased at my stocking; very well pleased at my stocking.