Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English PlaysJ. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1776 - English drama |
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... shall make fome advance . In the mean while , let's go dine at Locket's , and let hope get you a ftomach . [ Exeunt . SCENE , Lady Fancyful's House . Enter Lady Fancyful , and Mademoiselle . L. F. Did you ever fee any thing so importune ...
... shall make fome advance . In the mean while , let's go dine at Locket's , and let hope get you a ftomach . [ Exeunt . SCENE , Lady Fancyful's House . Enter Lady Fancyful , and Mademoiselle . L. F. Did you ever fee any thing so importune ...
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... Shall we provoke him a little ? L. B. With all my heart . Belinda , don't you long to be marry'd ? Bel . Why , there are fome things in it which I could like well enough . L. B. What do you think you shou'd dislike ? Fel . My husband ...
... Shall we provoke him a little ? L. B. With all my heart . Belinda , don't you long to be marry'd ? Bel . Why , there are fome things in it which I could like well enough . L. B. What do you think you shou'd dislike ? Fel . My husband ...
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... shall be your mistress's health : and that's a great compli- ment from me , I affure you . Conft . And ' tis a very obliging one to me : fo give us the glaffes . Sir J. So ; let her live . [ Sir John coughs in the glass . Heartf . And ...
... shall be your mistress's health : and that's a great compli- ment from me , I affure you . Conft . And ' tis a very obliging one to me : fo give us the glaffes . Sir J. So ; let her live . [ Sir John coughs in the glass . Heartf . And ...
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... could forgive her , ' tho ' the fhould be fo complaifant to receive fomething * elfe in his absence . ' But what way shall we invent to see her ? Conft . Conft . O ne'er hope it : invention will prove The PROVOK'D WIFE . 31.
... could forgive her , ' tho ' the fhould be fo complaifant to receive fomething * elfe in his absence . ' But what way shall we invent to see her ? Conft . Conft . O ne'er hope it : invention will prove The PROVOK'D WIFE . 31.
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... shall find an extended im- pudence on his . Heartf . I thank you , Madam , for your recom- mendation : but hating idlenefs , I'm unwilling to enter into a place where I believe there would be no- thing to do . I was fond of ferving your ...
... shall find an extended im- pudence on his . Heartf . I thank you , Madam , for your recom- mendation : but hating idlenefs , I'm unwilling to enter into a place where I believe there would be no- thing to do . I was fond of ferving your ...
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Page 44 - ... till he be angry. To keep his valour in obscurity, is to keep himself as it were in a cloak-bag. What's a musician, unless he play ? What's a tall man unless he fight?
Page 52 - I'm all a lie, nor dare I give a fiction to your arms; I'm all counterfeit, except my passion.
Page 17 - I lend no credit to that is fabled of 'em: I know the virtue of mine own, and therefore I dare the boldlier maintain it.
Page 18 - Oh, it's a most precious fool, make much on him: I can compare him to nothing more happily than a drum; for every one may play upon him.
Page 58 - Sul. Your prating is worse. Mrs. Sul. Have we not been a perpetual offence to each other? a gnawing vulture at the heart?
Page 7 - But some comfort still; if one would be revenged of him, these are good times; a woman may have a gallant, and a separate maintenance too— the surly puppy— yet he's a fool for't: For hitherto he has been no monster, but who knows how far he may provoke me? I never...
Page 81 - I own it, we are united contradictions, fire and water : but I could be contented, with a great...
Page 79 - ... he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger's basket ; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel nightcap.
Page 26 - Arch. In very good hands, sir. You were taken just now with one of your old fits, under the trees, just by this good lady's house; her ladyship had you taken in, and has miraculously brought you to.