The Comedies of William Congreve, Volumen2Methuen, 1895 |
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... obliged to you for your supply . It did me signal service in my necessity . But you delight in doing good . Scandal , drink to me , my friend Trapland's health . An honester man lives not , nor one more ready to serve his friend in ...
... obliged to you for your supply . It did me signal service in my necessity . But you delight in doing good . Scandal , drink to me , my friend Trapland's health . An honester man lives not , nor one more ready to serve his friend in ...
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... obliged to keep the secret . SCAN . No , no ; come to me if you'd see pictures . MRS . FRAIL . You ? SCAN . Yes , faith ; I can shew you your own picture , and most of your acquaintance to the life , and as like as at Kneller's . MRS ...
... obliged to keep the secret . SCAN . No , no ; come to me if you'd see pictures . MRS . FRAIL . You ? SCAN . Yes , faith ; I can shew you your own picture , and most of your acquaintance to the life , and as like as at Kneller's . MRS ...
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... oblige me to those hard conditions which my necessity signed to . SIR SAMP . Sir , how , I beseech you , what were you pleased to intimate , concerning indulgence ? VAL . Why , sir , that you would not go to the extremity of the ...
... oblige me to those hard conditions which my necessity signed to . SIR SAMP . Sir , how , I beseech you , what were you pleased to intimate , concerning indulgence ? VAL . Why , sir , that you would not go to the extremity of the ...
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... obliged to you . For you found her virtue upon the backwardness of the men ; and his secrecy upon the mistrust of the women . TATT . Gad , it's very true , madam , I think we are obliged to acquit ourselves . And for my part - but your ...
... obliged to you . For you found her virtue upon the backwardness of the men ; and his secrecy upon the mistrust of the women . TATT . Gad , it's very true , madam , I think we are obliged to acquit ourselves . And for my part - but your ...
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... oblige him ? Odsbud , madam , have no more to say to him , he is not worth your consideration . The rogue has not a drachm of generous love about him - all interest , all interest ; he's an undone scoundrel , and courts your estate ...
... oblige him ? Odsbud , madam , have no more to say to him , he is not worth your consideration . The rogue has not a drachm of generous love about him - all interest , all interest ; he's an undone scoundrel , and courts your estate ...
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Angelica astrology aunt believe better brother Buckram confess cousin cuckold dear devil dost thou Epictetus face FAIN FAINALL faith father fellow FOIB Foible fool FORE Foresight fortune FRAIL gentleman give gone hand handsome hast hate heart honour hope humour husband JERE JEREMY JOHN ECCLES kiss LADY WISHFORT ladyship leave look Lord LOVE FOR LOVE lover madam marry Marwood mayhap MILLA MINC MIRA Mirabell MISS PRUE mistress morning never niece NURSE pardon passion Petulant poet Pray REESE LIBRARY rogue SCAN Scandal SCENE IX SCENE VI SCENE VII SCENE XI secret servant Sir Rowland SIR SAMP Sir Sampson SIR WIL Sirrah sister speak sure swear t'other TATT Tattle tell thee there's thing thought Trapland uncle UNIVE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Valentine WAIT Waitwell warrant what's wife woman young
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Página 184 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after.
Página 194 - If you do, I protest I must recede — or think that I have made a prostitution of decorums, but in the vehemence of compassion, and to save the life of a person of so much importance WAIT.
Página 149 - Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous actions? To save that idol, reputation. If the familiarities of our loves had produced that consequence of which you were apprehensive, where could you have fixed a father's name with credit, but on a husband? I knew Fainall to be a man lavish of his morals, an interested and professing friend, a false and a designing lover...
Página 92 - ll be married in the dead of night. But say not a word. Hymen shall put his torch into a dark lanthorn, that it may be secret; and Juno shall give her peacock poppy-water, that he may fold his ogling tail, and Argus's hundred eyes be shut, ha ! Nobody shall know but Jeremy.
Página 138 - Wit. Ha, ha, ha! I had a mind to see how the rogue would come off. Ha, ha, ha ! Gad, I can't be angry with him, if he had said they were my mother and my sisters.
Página 152 - O ay, letters— I had letters— I am persecuted with letters— I hate letters— nobody knows how to write letters, and yet one has "em, one does not know why. They serve one to pin up one's hair.
Página 158 - I have no more patience. - If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again, there's no veracity in me. Fetch me the red - the red, do you hear, sweetheart? An arrant ash colour, as I'ma person.
Página 181 - But I hope, after a time, I shall break my mind — that is, upon further acquaintance. — So for the present, cousin, I'll take my leave. If so be you'll be so kind to make my excuse, I'll return to my company MRS.
Página 95 - My friend ? what to do ? I am no married man, and thou canst not lie with my wife ; I am very poor, and thou canst not borrow money of me ; then what employment have I for a friend ? Tat.
Página 133 - Not always; but as often as his memory fails him, and his commonplace of comparisons. He is a fool with a good memory, and some few scraps of other folks' wit. He is one whose conversation can never be approved, yet it is now and then to be endured. He has indeed one good quality, he is not exceptious; for he so passionately affects the reputation of understanding raillery, that he will construe an affront into a jest; and call downright rudeness and ill language, satire and fire.