The New English Theatre: Containing the Most Valuable Plays which Have Been Acted on the London Stage, 5. kötetJ. Rivington, 1787 |
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3. oldal - My seeming madness has deceived my father, and procured me time to think of means to reconcile me to him, and preserve the right of my inheritance to his estate ; which otherwise, by articles, I must this morning have resigned.
21. oldal - Bon. So well, as the saying is, that I could wish we had as many more of 'em. They're full of money, and pay double for every thing they have.
59. oldal - Do, wrap thyself up like a wood-louse, and dream revenge — and hear me, if thou canst learn to write by to-morrow morning, pen me a challenge. — I'll carry it for thee. Pet. Carry your mistress's monkey a spider! — Go flea dogs, and read romances! — I'll go to bed to my maid.
27. oldal - Ay, ay, suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power, to destroy your lover — and then how vain, how lost a thing you'll be! Nay, 'tis true: you are no longer handsome when...
1. oldal - I am no lord, but a poor, needy man, come with a mean, a scandalous design to prey upon your fortune.
29. oldal - To know this, and yet continue to be in love, is to be made wise from the dictates of reason, and yet persevere to play the fool by the force of instinct.
49. oldal - em, I care not if I leave 'em a common motto to their common crest. All husbands must or pain or shame endure; The wise too jealous are, fools too secure.
54. oldal - Ah, idle creature, get up when you will — and d'ye hear, I won't be called names after I'm married; positively I won't be called names.