Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English PlaysJ. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1776 - English drama |
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... faith - if I fhould let pure woman alone , I fhou'd e'en be but too well pleas'd ' with't . • Bel . I'll fwear ' twould tickle me ftrangely . T L. B. But after all , ' tis a vicious practice in us , to give the least encouragement , but ...
... faith - if I fhould let pure woman alone , I fhou'd e'en be but too well pleas'd ' with't . • Bel . I'll fwear ' twould tickle me ftrangely . T L. B. But after all , ' tis a vicious practice in us , to give the least encouragement , but ...
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... faith . I have dreamt of her , that's certain - Well , fo I have of my mother ; therefore what's that to the purpofe ? Ay , but Belinda runs in my mind waking and fo does many a damn'd thing , that I don't care a farthing for - Methinks ...
... faith . I have dreamt of her , that's certain - Well , fo I have of my mother ; therefore what's that to the purpofe ? Ay , but Belinda runs in my mind waking and fo does many a damn'd thing , that I don't care a farthing for - Methinks ...
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... faith , friend , ' tis the care I have of your affairs , that makes me fo thoughtful ; I have been studying all night how to bring your matter about with Belinda . Conft . With Belinda ! Heart . With my lady , I mean : and faith I have ...
... faith , friend , ' tis the care I have of your affairs , that makes me fo thoughtful ; I have been studying all night how to bring your matter about with Belinda . Conft . With Belinda ! Heart . With my lady , I mean : and faith I have ...
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... faith . Enter Sir John . Sir J. What a pox - here's Conftant , Heartfree and two whores e'gad --- O , you covetous rogues --what have you never a spare punk for your friend ? ... But I'll fhare with you . Heartf . Why what the plague ...
... faith . Enter Sir John . Sir J. What a pox - here's Conftant , Heartfree and two whores e'gad --- O , you covetous rogues --what have you never a spare punk for your friend ? ... But I'll fhare with you . Heartf . Why what the plague ...
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... faith , Heartfree , matrimony is like an army , going to engage . Love's the forlorn hope , which is foon cut off ; the marriage knot is the main body , which may stand buff a long long time ; and re- pentance is the rear - guard ...
... faith , Heartfree , matrimony is like an army , going to engage . Love's the forlorn hope , which is foon cut off ; the marriage knot is the main body , which may stand buff a long long time ; and re- pentance is the rear - guard ...
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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.