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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... please , rife when we will , all the Week we dance and fing , and upon Sundays go first to Church , and then to the Play.Now , Brother , befides thefe Motives for chufing this Gentleman for my Guardian , perhaps I had fome private ...
... please , rife when we will , all the Week we dance and fing , and upon Sundays go first to Church , and then to the Play.Now , Brother , befides thefe Motives for chufing this Gentleman for my Guardian , perhaps I had fome private ...
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... please us , and that we have fome- thing engaging about us to fecure him ; fo we can't be quiet till we put ourselves upon the lay of being both difappointed . Dug . But then , Sifter , he's as fickle- Ori . For God's Sake , Brother ...
... please us , and that we have fome- thing engaging about us to fecure him ; fo we can't be quiet till we put ourselves upon the lay of being both difappointed . Dug . But then , Sifter , he's as fickle- Ori . For God's Sake , Brother ...
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... please . Bif . [ Afide ] He'll find that one may ferve his turn , Old Mir . Both ! Why , you young Dog , d'ye banter me ? -Come , Sir , take your Choice . - Duretete , you shall have your Choice too ; but Robin shall chafe first . Come ...
... please . Bif . [ Afide ] He'll find that one may ferve his turn , Old Mir . Both ! Why , you young Dog , d'ye banter me ? -Come , Sir , take your Choice . - Duretete , you shall have your Choice too ; but Robin shall chafe first . Come ...
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... 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 natural Correfpondence between Male and Female , and he's a Mad - man that ...
... 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 natural Correfpondence between Male and Female , and he's a Mad - man that ...
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... please to be otherwife upon my Terms . Ori . What do you intend by this , Sir ? Mir . Why , to ftarve you into Compliance ; look'e . you fhall never marry any Mau ; and you had as good let me do you a Kindness as a Stranger . Ori . Sir ...
... please to be otherwife upon my Terms . Ori . What do you intend by this , Sir ? Mir . Why , to ftarve you into Compliance ; look'e . you fhall never marry any Mau ; and you had as good let me do you a Kindness as a Stranger . Ori . 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.