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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... just , and the Strength of my Paffion keeps down the Inclination of my Sex . But here's the old Gentleman . : Enter Old Mirabel . Old . Mir . Where's my Wenches ! where's my two lit- tle Girls Eh ! Have a care , look to yourselves ...
... just , and the Strength of my Paffion keeps down the Inclination of my Sex . But here's the old Gentleman . : Enter Old Mirabel . Old . Mir . Where's my Wenches ! where's my two lit- tle Girls Eh ! Have a care , look to yourselves ...
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... just and pious Defign of making the wifeft of his Creatures a Fool , and the Head of the Creation a Slave . Ori . Sir , I am proud of my Power , and am refolv❜d to use it . Mir . Hold , hold , Madam , not fo faft - As you have Variety ...
... just and pious Defign of making the wifeft of his Creatures a Fool , and the Head of the Creation a Slave . Ori . Sir , I am proud of my Power , and am refolv❜d to use it . Mir . Hold , hold , Madam , not fo faft - As you have Variety ...
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... just now ? [ Strikes him . Old Mir . The Rogue quarrels well , very well , my own Son right ! -But hold , Sirrah , no more Jefting ; I'm your Father , Sir , your Father ! Mir . My Father ! Then by this Light I could find in my Heart to ...
... just now ? [ Strikes him . Old Mir . The Rogue quarrels well , very well , my own Son right ! -But hold , Sirrah , no more Jefting ; I'm your Father , Sir , your Father ! Mir . My Father ! Then by this Light I could find in my Heart to ...
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... have I ' fcap'd ? Was not I just now upon the Brink of Destruction ? Enter Duretete . Oh , my Friend , let me run into thy Bofom ; no Lark , efcaptd efcap'd from the devouring Pounces of a Hawk , quakes 58 The Inconftant : Or ,
... have I ' fcap'd ? Was not I just now upon the Brink of Destruction ? Enter Duretete . Oh , my Friend , let me run into thy Bofom ; no Lark , efcaptd efcap'd from the devouring Pounces of a Hawk , quakes 58 The Inconftant : Or ,
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... Clock ? Mir . Hum ! Sir , I have left my Watch at home . [ Afide . 2 Brav . I thought I faw the String of it just now- Mir . Ods my Life , Sir , I beg Mir . The Way to win him . 65 fame. And what next Night? The fame. ...
... Clock ? Mir . Hum ! Sir , I have left my Watch at home . [ Afide . 2 Brav . I thought I faw the String of it just now- Mir . Ods my Life , Sir , I beg Mir . The Way to win him . 65 fame. And what next Night? The fame. ...
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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.