The modern British drama, 4. kötet1811 |
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Arch brother cann't captain Char Charl Cher Clarinda Cler Clin colonel d'ye daugh daughter dear devil Dr Cant dside Enter Exeunt Exit father fellow fool fortune Fred gentleman give hand happy Hast hear heart Heidel honour hope Humph husband Isab Kite Lady Lamb ladyship Lappet letter Liss look Lord Lord HARDY Lord Og Love Lovemore Lure madam marriage marry master Mirabel Miss Hard Miss Sterl mistress never Niece Oakly on't pardon passion Plume poor Pr'ythee pray pretty rogue Sackbut SCENE Scrub Sealand servant shew Sir Bash Sir Bril Sir Fran Sir Geo Sir Harry Sir Jeal Sir John sirrah sister speak Stand sure talk tell thee there's thing thou thousand pounds Tony Vellum what's wife Wild woman young Zounds
Népszerű szakaszok
544. oldal - The Englishman's malady. But tell me, George, where could I have learned that assurance you talk of? My life has been chiefly spent in a college or an inn, in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teach men confidence.
539. oldal - It's false, Mr. Hardcastle : I was but twenty when I was brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first husband; and he's not come to years of discretion yet.
540. oldal - Goodness ! What a quantity of superfluous silk hast thou got about thee , girl ! I could never teach the fools of this age, that the indigent world could be clothed out of the trimmings of the vain.
543. oldal - Diggory, you are too talkative. Then, if I happen to say a good thing, or tell a good story at table, you must not all burst out a-laughing, as if you made part of the company.
548. oldal - I'm certain he scarce looked in my face the whole time. Yet the fellow, but for his unaccountable bashfulness, is pretty well, too. He has good sense, but then so buried in his fears, that it fatigues one more than ignorance.
546. oldal - The devil, Sir, do you think, we have brought down the whole Joiners' Company, or the Corporation of Bedford, to eat up such a supper ? Two or three little things, clean and comfortable, will do.
305. oldal - Trade. Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
547. oldal - Not at all, Sir ; there is nothing I like so much as grave conversation myself; I could hear it for ever. Indeed, I have often been surprised how a man of sentiment could ever admire those light airy pleasures, where nothing reaches the heart.
544. oldal - Travellers, George, must pay in all places. The only difference is, that in good inns you pay dearly for luxuries; in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.
135. oldal - I grant ye, they are as willing tits as any within twenty degrees : but I can have no great opinion of our heads from the service they have done us hitherto, unless it be that they have brought us from London hither to Lichfield, made me a lord and you my servant.