Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English PlaysJ. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1776 - English drama |
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... face of brass , No matter what they are ; that's not the cafe , To write three plays , e'en that's to be an ass . But what I leaft forgive , he knows it too , For to his coft be lately has known you . Experience fhews , to many a ...
... face of brass , No matter what they are ; that's not the cafe , To write three plays , e'en that's to be an ass . But what I leaft forgive , he knows it too , For to his coft be lately has known you . Experience fhews , to many a ...
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... face pe handfomer den all de looking - glafs in de world , croyez moy . L. F. But is it poffible my eyes can be so languish- ing- --and fo very full of fire . Madem . Matam , if de glafs was burning - glass , I believe your eyes fet de ...
... face pe handfomer den all de looking - glafs in de world , croyez moy . L. F. But is it poffible my eyes can be so languish- ing- --and fo very full of fire . Madem . Matam , if de glafs was burning - glass , I believe your eyes fet de ...
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... face , but you have found the way to teach it fome affected convulfion ; your feet , your hands , your very fingers ends are directed ne- ver to move without fome ridiculous air or other ; and your language is a fuitable trumpet , to ...
... face , but you have found the way to teach it fome affected convulfion ; your feet , your hands , your very fingers ends are directed ne- ver to move without fome ridiculous air or other ; and your language is a fuitable trumpet , to ...
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... face . [ Re - enter Heartfree . Belinda runs to him , and fhews her face . Heartf . Hold , thou mighty man ! Look ye , Sir , we did but jeft with you . Thefe are ladies of our acquaintance that we had a mind to frighten a little , but ...
... face . [ Re - enter Heartfree . Belinda runs to him , and fhews her face . Heartf . Hold , thou mighty man ! Look ye , Sir , we did but jeft with you . Thefe are ladies of our acquaintance that we had a mind to frighten a little , but ...
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... face , and I hate you for ever after . Heartf . Some women love to be abus'd : is that it you wou'd be at ? Bel . No , not that neither ; But I'd have men talk plainly what's fit for women to hear , without putting ' em either to a real ...
... face , and I hate you for ever after . Heartf . Some women love to be abus'd : is that it you wou'd be at ? Bel . No , not that neither ; But I'd have men talk plainly what's fit for women to hear , without putting ' em either to a real ...
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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.