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... keep my forrows to myfelf . Sir Andr . Don't - don't keep them to your- felf - I like to hear you talk about forrow and misery ; and if you know of any more elsewhere , you'll not offend me by imparting it ! But now I think on't , tell ...
... keep my forrows to myfelf . Sir Andr . Don't - don't keep them to your- felf - I like to hear you talk about forrow and misery ; and if you know of any more elsewhere , you'll not offend me by imparting it ! But now I think on't , tell ...
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... keeps me as his valet , frizeur , and all that , only becafe I per- plex , and make a noise , and am quite au fait at botheration wherever I go . Sophia . Pray , what brings Mr. Nominal fo fuddenly from France ? Isn't it fomething about ...
... keeps me as his valet , frizeur , and all that , only becafe I per- plex , and make a noise , and am quite au fait at botheration wherever I go . Sophia . Pray , what brings Mr. Nominal fo fuddenly from France ? Isn't it fomething about ...
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... Keep quiet , I tell you --- Oh , curfe your joy . Col. Ti , di , di , di ! The lad of fpirit ! The boy after his Guardian's own heart ! -Here , here's a contract to marry my niece Honoria . Sir Andr . Be ferious , I tell you , grinning ...
... Keep quiet , I tell you --- Oh , curfe your joy . Col. Ti , di , di , di ! The lad of fpirit ! The boy after his Guardian's own heart ! -Here , here's a contract to marry my niece Honoria . Sir Andr . Be ferious , I tell you , grinning ...
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... keep him where he is , or all's ruined ! Nom . I will . [ Exit Clairville from window . Sir , [ bowing ] if your name is Hubbub , I have to intreat your pardon - I've the honou of being acquainted with part of your worthy family . Col ...
... keep him where he is , or all's ruined ! Nom . I will . [ Exit Clairville from window . Sir , [ bowing ] if your name is Hubbub , I have to intreat your pardon - I've the honou of being acquainted with part of your worthy family . Col ...
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... keep up my character , and I'm the most unlucky dog alive --- I've been searching every where for an ad- venture , and can't find one --- I can't get into notice ! Lord Lord Jar . Can't you ? Nom . No ; 50 NOTORIETY :
... keep up my character , and I'm the most unlucky dog alive --- I've been searching every where for an ad- venture , and can't find one --- I can't get into notice ! Lord Lord Jar . Can't you ? Nom . No ; 50 NOTORIETY :
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Page 16 - Till spousy finds, while anxious to immure her, A patent coffin only can secure her ! At last the Dowager, in ancient flounces, With snuff and spectacles, this age denounces.
Page 65 - Turn a corner in style ! — Reins in form — Elbows square — Wrist pliant — Hayait !— Drive the Coventry stage twice a week all summer :— Pay for an inside place — Mount the box — Tip the coachy a crown — Beat the mail — Come in full speed ; — Rattle down the gate-way ! — Take care of your heads ! — Never killed but one woman and a child in all my life — That's your sort ! [Going.
Page 35 - d the fame game before me ; that when he was clerk at the lottery-office, at billiards all the morning, and at hazard all the evening — therefore, fays...
Page 16 - ... tender, And would to every spouse I had surrender ; Their wishes to refuse I never durst, And my fourth died as happy as my first !" Truce to such splenetic and rash designs, And let us mingle candour with our lines. In all the stages of domestic life — • As child or sister, parent, friend, or wife — Woman, the source of every fond employ, Softens affliction, and enlivens joy.
Page 40 - Juft gone by ! that's a miftake ; for the . old beau has been gone by thefe thirty years : however, come in — come, and eat and drink what you like. Call for burgundy...
Page 27 - Now he lives in ftyle, drives his carriage, and will lend you a thoufand pounds. Lady Henrietta. Will he, fir ? I'm very much oblig'd to him. Enter NAB, (Smartly drefid).
Page 6 - Well, if she's his today she'll be yours to-morrow. I have seen Mr Smalltrade ; he talks of becoming a partner; and, if you play your cards well, Lady Henrietta will be completely in your power. " Sir Charles — Yes, for when I've won all her money I can be generous enough to become her protector. Well, sister, we shall ruin them aU.
Page 16 - Nor man nor woman now have any bodies ! When I was young, my heart was always tender, And would to every spouse I had surrender ; Their wishes to refuse I never durst, And my fourth died as happy as my first !" Truce to such splenetic and rash designs, And let us mingle candour with our lines.