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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... dear Captain , we have eat heartily , drank roundly , paid plentifully , and let it go for once . I lik'd every Thing but our Women , they look'd fo lean and tawdry , poor Creatures ! ' Tis a fure fign the Army is not paid .-- Give me ...
... dear Captain , we have eat heartily , drank roundly , paid plentifully , and let it go for once . I lik'd every Thing but our Women , they look'd fo lean and tawdry , poor Creatures ! ' Tis a fure fign the Army is not paid .-- Give me ...
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... dear Boy , I am heartily glad to fee thee , my dear Child , faith - Capt . Duretete , by the Blood of the Mirabels , I'm your's Well , my Lads , ye look bravely faith . - Bob , haft got any Money left Mir . Not a Farthing , Sir . Old ...
... dear Boy , I am heartily glad to fee thee , my dear Child , faith - Capt . Duretete , by the Blood of the Mirabels , I'm your's Well , my Lads , ye look bravely faith . - Bob , haft got any Money left Mir . Not a Farthing , Sir . Old ...
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... dear Liberty and Freedom ? What d'ye figh for ? What d'ye weep for ? What d'ye pray for ? Why , for a Hufband : That is , you implore Providence to affift you in the just and pious Defign of making the wifeft of his Creatures a Fool ...
... dear Liberty and Freedom ? What d'ye figh for ? What d'ye weep for ? What d'ye pray for ? Why , for a Hufband : That is , you implore Providence to affift you in the just and pious Defign of making the wifeft of his Creatures a Fool ...
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... dear dancing Philofopher . Bif . Uds my Life ! Here's one . [ Runs to Dur . and hales him back . Dur . Is all my learn'd Preparation come to this ? Bif . Come , Sir , don't be asham'd , that's my good Boy - you're very welcome , we ...
... dear dancing Philofopher . Bif . Uds my Life ! Here's one . [ Runs to Dur . and hales him back . Dur . Is all my learn'd Preparation come to this ? Bif . Come , Sir , don't be asham'd , that's my good Boy - you're very welcome , we ...
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... dear Man of Honour , if you be tir'd , con over this Leffon , and fit there till I come to you . [ Runs off . Dur ... dear Friend ; do'ft fee this Picture ? [ Shews him a little Picture .. Mir . Oriana's ? Pfhaw ! Old Mir . What , Sir ...
... dear Man of Honour , if you be tir'd , con over this Leffon , and fit there till I come to you . [ Runs off . Dur ... dear Friend ; do'ft fee this Picture ? [ Shews him a little Picture .. Mir . Oriana's ? Pfhaw ! Old Mir . What , Sir ...
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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.