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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... Service t'ye - Ha Roma la Santa ! Italy for my Money ; their Cuftoms , Gardens , Buildings , Paintings , Mufic , Poli- cies , Wine and Women ! the Paradife of the World ; — not pefter'd with a parcel of precife old gouty Fel- lows ...
... Service t'ye - Ha Roma la Santa ! Italy for my Money ; their Cuftoms , Gardens , Buildings , Paintings , Mufic , Poli- cies , Wine and Women ! the Paradife of the World ; — not pefter'd with a parcel of precife old gouty Fel- lows ...
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... Service , with all my Heart : I'll keep you a Coach and fix Horfes , if you please , only permit me to keep my Honour to myfelf ; for 1 can affure you , Madam , that the Thing called Honour is a Circumstance abfolutely unneceflary in a ...
... Service , with all my Heart : I'll keep you a Coach and fix Horfes , if you please , only permit me to keep my Honour to myfelf ; for 1 can affure you , Madam , that the Thing called Honour is a Circumstance abfolutely unneceflary in a ...
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... Service , but I fhall take Care how I confer my Favours for the future . Mir . Sir , I beg ten thoufand Pardons . [ Bowing low .. Pet . ' Tis enough , Sir , -I come to tell you , Sir , that Oriana is this Moment to be facrificed ; marry ...
... Service , but I fhall take Care how I confer my Favours for the future . Mir . Sir , I beg ten thoufand Pardons . [ Bowing low .. Pet . ' Tis enough , Sir , -I come to tell you , Sir , that Oriana is this Moment to be facrificed ; marry ...
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... Service of Heaven . And for our handfome Perfons ; they become a Box at the Play , as well as a Pew in the Church , Ori . But the Viciffitude of Fortune , the Inconftancy of Man , with other Difappointments of Life , require fome Place ...
... Service of Heaven . And for our handfome Perfons ; they become a Box at the Play , as well as a Pew in the Church , Ori . But the Viciffitude of Fortune , the Inconftancy of Man , with other Difappointments of Life , require fome Place ...
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... Service that may afford him Opportunity of Improvement ; your Care of bim will oblige Has't a mind to travel , Child ? Your's . Ori . ' Tis my Defire , Sir ; I fhould be pleas'd to ferve à Traveller in any Capacity . Mir . A hopeful ...
... Service that may afford him Opportunity of Improvement ; your Care of bim will oblige Has't a mind to travel , Child ? Your's . Ori . ' Tis my Defire , Sir ; I fhould be pleas'd to ferve à Traveller in any Capacity . Mir . A hopeful ...
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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.