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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... true , Poets , like Vintners , balderdash and brew . Your furly Scenes , where Rant and Bloodshed join , Are Butcher's Meat , a Battle's a Sirloin : Your Scenes of Love , fo flowing , foft and chafte , Are Water - gruel , without Salt ...
... true , Poets , like Vintners , balderdash and brew . Your furly Scenes , where Rant and Bloodshed join , Are Butcher's Meat , a Battle's a Sirloin : Your Scenes of Love , fo flowing , foft and chafte , Are Water - gruel , without Salt ...
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... true Cause of making fuch a Choice . Ori . Look'e Brother , you were going a Rambling , and ' twas proper , left I fhould go a Rambling too , that fomebody thould take care of me . Old Monfieur Mirabel is an honeft Gentleman , was our ...
... true Cause of making fuch a Choice . Ori . Look'e Brother , you were going a Rambling , and ' twas proper , left I fhould go a Rambling too , that fomebody thould take care of me . Old Monfieur Mirabel is an honeft Gentleman , was our ...
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... true modern Patron , fhal hardly give you thanks for your Trouble . Bif . Come , Sir , to let you fee what little Foundation you have for your dear Sufficiency , I'll take you t☛ pieces . Mir . And what Piece will you chufe ? Bif ...
... true modern Patron , fhal hardly give you thanks for your Trouble . Bif . Come , Sir , to let you fee what little Foundation you have for your dear Sufficiency , I'll take you t☛ pieces . Mir . And what Piece will you chufe ? Bif ...
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... true , Madam , and he's a little engag'd , be- fides , Madam , a Hackney - coach will do as well , Madam . Mir . Rude Peaft , be quiet ! [ To Duretete . ] The far- ther from home , Madam , the more Occafion you have for a Guaid - pray ...
... true , Madam , and he's a little engag'd , be- fides , Madam , a Hackney - coach will do as well , Madam . Mir . Rude Peaft , be quiet ! [ To Duretete . ] The far- ther from home , Madam , the more Occafion you have for a Guaid - pray ...
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... True , Sir , you're a pleasant Gentleman , but I fuppofe you under- ftand our Bufinefs . Mir . Sir , I may go near to guefs at your Employments ; you , Sir , are a Lawyer , I prefume , you a Phyfician , you a Scrivener , and you a Stock ...
... True , Sir , you're a pleasant Gentleman , but I fuppofe you under- ftand our Bufinefs . Mir . Sir , I may go near to guefs at your Employments ; you , Sir , are a Lawyer , I prefume , you a Phyfician , you a Scrivener , and you a Stock ...
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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.