The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Volume 2J. Rivington, 1772 |
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... House , or pick his Pocket . The New - Houfe has perfectly made me a Convert by their Civility on my fixth Night : For to be Friends , and revenged at the fame Time , I must give them a Play , that is , when I write another . For ...
... House , or pick his Pocket . The New - Houfe has perfectly made me a Convert by their Civility on my fixth Night : For to be Friends , and revenged at the fame Time , I must give them a Play , that is , when I write another . For ...
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... House , or pick his Pocket . The New - Houfe has perfectly made me a Convert by their Civility on my fixth Night : For to be Friends , and revenged at the fame Time , I must give them a Play , that is , when I write another . For ...
... House , or pick his Pocket . The New - Houfe has perfectly made me a Convert by their Civility on my fixth Night : For to be Friends , and revenged at the fame Time , I must give them a Play , that is , when I write another . For ...
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... house all the Year . Yet fince each Mind betrays a diff'rent Tafte , And every Difh Scarce pleafs ev'ry Guest , If aught you relish , do not damn the reft . This Favour crav'd , up let the Mufic ftrike : You ' welcome all Now fall to ...
... house all the Year . Yet fince each Mind betrays a diff'rent Tafte , And every Difh Scarce pleafs ev'ry Guest , If aught you relish , do not damn the reft . This Favour crav'd , up let the Mufic ftrike : You ' welcome all Now fall to ...
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... House between ye , and I'll be as merry as the beft of you . Mir . Bravely faid , Father . Let Mifers bend their Age with niggard Cares , And ftarve themfelves to pamper hungry Heirs ; Who , living , fint their Sons what Youth may crave ...
... House between ye , and I'll be as merry as the beft of you . Mir . Bravely faid , Father . Let Mifers bend their Age with niggard Cares , And ftarve themfelves to pamper hungry Heirs ; Who , living , fint their Sons what Youth may crave ...
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... House . T Enter Old Mirabel and Dugard . HE Lady Abbefs is my Relation , and privy to the Plot : Your Son has been there , but had no Admittance beyond the Privilege of the Grate , and there my Sifter refus'd to fee him . He went off ...
... House . T Enter Old Mirabel and Dugard . HE Lady Abbefs is my Relation , and privy to the Plot : Your Son has been there , but had no Admittance beyond the Privilege of the Grate , and there my Sifter refus'd to fee him . He went off ...
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Page 54 - I have a good running trade ; I have but one daughter, and I can give her — but no matter for that. Aim. You're very happy, Mr. Boniface. Pray, what other company have you in town ? Bon. A power of fine ladies ; and then we have the French officers., Aim.
Page 34 - And if you go to that, how can you, after what is passed, have the confidence to deny me ? Was not this blood shed in your defence, and my life...
Page 64 - O matrimony! He tosses up the clothes with a barbarous swing over his shoulders, disorders the whole economy of my bed, leaves me half naked, and my whole night's comfort is the tuneable serenade of that wakeful nightingale, his nose!
Page 68 - Mother was useless at five and twenty; not wheedle ! would you make your Mother a Whore and me a Cuckold, as the saying is? I tell you his Silence confesses it, and his Master spends his Money so freely, and is so much a Gentleman every manner of way that he must be a Highwayman. Enter Gibbet in a Cloak.
Page 61 - I have been here but a week, and I have recruited five. Plume. Five ! pray what are they ? Kite. I have listed the strong man of Kent, the king of the gipsies, a Scotch pedlar, a scoundrel attorney, and a Welsh parson.