Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English PlaysJ. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1776 - English drama |
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... young beginner , And only Scourge the incorrigible finner ; They touch indeed bis faults , but with a hand So gentle , that his merits ftill may fland : Kindly they buoy the follies of his pen , That he may fhun ' em when he writes ...
... young beginner , And only Scourge the incorrigible finner ; They touch indeed bis faults , but with a hand So gentle , that his merits ftill may fland : Kindly they buoy the follies of his pen , That he may fhun ' em when he writes ...
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... Young . Mrs. Ward . Belinda , - Mrs. Greville . Mrs. Mattocks . Lady Fancyful , · -Mrs.Abington . Mrs. Bellamy . 7 + Mademoiselle , - Mrs. Bradshaw . Mrs. Green . Cornet , Servant to Lady Fancyful , · } THE THE PROVOK'D WIFE . W A C T I ...
... Young . Mrs. Ward . Belinda , - Mrs. Greville . Mrs. Mattocks . Lady Fancyful , · -Mrs.Abington . Mrs. Bellamy . 7 + Mademoiselle , - Mrs. Bradshaw . Mrs. Green . Cornet , Servant to Lady Fancyful , · } THE THE PROVOK'D WIFE . W A C T I ...
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... young lady , a fine lady , a witty lady , a virtuous lady - and yet I hate her . There is but one thing on earth I loath beyond her : that's fighting . Would my courage come up to a fourth part of my ill - nature , I'd stand buff to her ...
... young lady , a fine lady , a witty lady , a virtuous lady - and yet I hate her . There is but one thing on earth I loath beyond her : that's fighting . Would my courage come up to a fourth part of my ill - nature , I'd stand buff to her ...
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... young fellows ogling , and glancing , and watching all oc- cafions to do forty foolish officious , things : nay , ' fhould fome of ' em pufh on , even to hanging or drowning why - faith - if I fhould let pure woman alone , I fhou'd e'en ...
... young fellows ogling , and glancing , and watching all oc- cafions to do forty foolish officious , things : nay , ' fhould fome of ' em pufh on , even to hanging or drowning why - faith - if I fhould let pure woman alone , I fhou'd e'en ...
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... young fel- low , the might ufe you better . Come , will you go fee her ; perhaps the may have chang'd her mind ; there's fome hopes , as long as fhe's a woman . Conft . O , ' tis in vain to vifit her : fometimes to get a fight of her ...
... young fel- low , the might ufe you better . Come , will you go fee her ; perhaps the may have chang'd her mind ; there's fome hopes , as long as fhe's a woman . Conft . O , ' tis in vain to vifit her : fometimes to get a fight of her ...
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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.