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... uncle , the Colonel , who has cruelly delivered me to the care of your wife , Sir - But I interrupt you - I fee I do - I'll keep my forrows to myfelf . Sir Andr . Don't - don't keep them to your- felf - I like to hear you talk about ...
... uncle , the Colonel , who has cruelly delivered me to the care of your wife , Sir - But I interrupt you - I fee I do - I'll keep my forrows to myfelf . Sir Andr . Don't - don't keep them to your- felf - I like to hear you talk about ...
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... uncle intends for your husband , is hourly expected from France . Hen . Talk not of that , Sir ; for I dread the confequences of his arrival . - The night Clair- ville was difcovered in my apartment , the Colonel told him he would fend ...
... uncle intends for your husband , is hourly expected from France . Hen . Talk not of that , Sir ; for I dread the confequences of his arrival . - The night Clair- ville was difcovered in my apartment , the Colonel told him he would fend ...
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... uncle , the old General , was alive , he'd die with joy ! Sir Andr . Old General , indeed ! A pretty uncle he was to leave his nephew to the care of fuch a Guardian as you --- But I remember him , he loved diffipation , and defpifed ...
... uncle , the old General , was alive , he'd die with joy ! Sir Andr . Old General , indeed ! A pretty uncle he was to leave his nephew to the care of fuch a Guardian as you --- But I remember him , he loved diffipation , and defpifed ...
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... Uncle's ward is defign'd for her husband . Nom . What Nominal ? I know him intimately ? nor is there a finer fellow alive - he pricks the bladders of vanity , pulls down arrogance , and chaftifes folly ; and what's more , he gives his ...
... Uncle's ward is defign'd for her husband . Nom . What Nominal ? I know him intimately ? nor is there a finer fellow alive - he pricks the bladders of vanity , pulls down arrogance , and chaftifes folly ; and what's more , he gives his ...
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... uncle ! Come , for I do fo long to hear the history of your pranks . Nom . Ay ; you shall hear them all , from Paul Prig to the juftice - from the peer to the wax- figure ; and then , if you don't say , I'm as eccen- tric and ridiculous ...
... uncle ! Come , for I do fo long to hear the history of your pranks . Nom . Ay ; you shall hear them all , from Paul Prig to the juftice - from the peer to the wax- figure ; and then , if you don't say , I'm as eccen- tric and ridiculous ...
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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.