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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... Scene a different Dish : Tho ' we're in Lent , I doubt you're fill for Flesh . Satire's the Sauce , high feafon'd ... Scenes , where Rant and Bloodshed join , Are Butcher's Meat , a Battle's a Sirloin : Your Scenes of Love , fo flowing ...
... Scene a different Dish : Tho ' we're in Lent , I doubt you're fill for Flesh . Satire's the Sauce , high feafon'd ... Scenes , where Rant and Bloodshed join , Are Butcher's Meat , a Battle's a Sirloin : Your Scenes of Love , fo flowing ...
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... SCENE , The Street . Enter Dugard , and his Man Petit in Riding Habits . IRRAH , What's a Clock ? Pet . Turn'd of Eleven , Sir . Dug . No more ! We have rid a fwinging Ya Pace from Nemours fince two this Morn- ing ! Petit , run to ...
... SCENE , The Street . Enter Dugard , and his Man Petit in Riding Habits . IRRAH , What's a Clock ? Pet . Turn'd of Eleven , Sir . Dug . No more ! We have rid a fwinging Ya Pace from Nemours fince two this Morn- ing ! Petit , run to ...
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... SCENE a Tavern , difcovering young Mirabel and Duretete rifing from Table . Mir . Welcome to Paris once more , my dear Captain , we have eat heartily , drank roundly , paid plentifully , and let it go for once . I lik'd every Thing but ...
... SCENE a Tavern , difcovering young Mirabel and Duretete rifing from Table . Mir . Welcome to Paris once more , my dear Captain , we have eat heartily , drank roundly , paid plentifully , and let it go for once . I lik'd every Thing but ...
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... SCENE , Old Mirabel's House . Oriana and Bifarre . Bil . A Ori . Yes . ND you love this young Rake , d'ye ? Bif . In fpight of all his ill Ufage . Ori . I can't help it . Bif . What's the Matter wi'ye ? Ori . Phaw ! Bif . Um - before ...
... SCENE , Old Mirabel's House . Oriana and Bifarre . Bil . A Ori . Yes . ND you love this young Rake , d'ye ? Bif . In fpight of all his ill Ufage . Ori . I can't help it . Bif . What's the Matter wi'ye ? Ori . Phaw ! Bif . Um - before ...
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... SCENE changes to a large Parlour in the fame Houfe . Enter Duretete and Petit . Dur . And he's mighty peevish , you fay ? Pet . O Sir , fhe has a Tongue as long as my Leg , and talks fo crabbedly , you wou'd think he always fpoke Web ...
... SCENE changes to a large Parlour in the fame Houfe . Enter Duretete and Petit . Dur . And he's mighty peevish , you fay ? Pet . O Sir , fhe has a Tongue as long as my Leg , and talks fo crabbedly , you wou'd think he always fpoke Web ...
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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.