Dramatic Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 2A. Millar, 1798 |
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... pleasure ; and in exchange have got a wife , a very wife ! -Ambition began my misery , and matrimony has completed it - But have not other men of quality wives , nay , fashionable wives , and yet are happy ? Then why am not I ? Because ...
... pleasure ; and in exchange have got a wife , a very wife ! -Ambition began my misery , and matrimony has completed it - But have not other men of quality wives , nay , fashionable wives , and yet are happy ? Then why am not I ? Because ...
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... pleasures , and beelth to enjoy ' em ? Bol . Well said , FripperelThere spoke the genius of a fine gentle man Give him but dainties to tickle a fine 4 LILLIPUT . brother Fripperel, as my wife's nearest relations, to ...
... pleasures , and beelth to enjoy ' em ? Bol . Well said , FripperelThere spoke the genius of a fine gentle man Give him but dainties to tickle a fine 4 LILLIPUT . brother Fripperel, as my wife's nearest relations, to ...
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... pleasure , that you can be so indifferent in your love , and yet so jealous in your friendship . Tuke . You do me honour , miss , by your good opinion . [ Walks about , and sees Sophy . Who's that , pray ? Arab . A gentleman who is ...
... pleasure , that you can be so indifferent in your love , and yet so jealous in your friendship . Tuke . You do me honour , miss , by your good opinion . [ Walks about , and sees Sophy . Who's that , pray ? Arab . A gentleman who is ...
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... pleasure can you have in decciving them , and the world ? for you are thought a ter ible young gentleman . Daf . Why that pleasure , booby . Ruf . I don't understand it - What do you intend to do with ' em all ! Ruin ' em ? Daf . Not I ...
... pleasure can you have in decciving them , and the world ? for you are thought a ter ible young gentleman . Daf . Why that pleasure , booby . Ruf . I don't understand it - What do you intend to do with ' em all ! Ruin ' em ? Daf . Not I ...
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... pleasure but in the chase ; the game is always given to those who have less taste , and better stomachs . Ruf . I love to pick a bit , I must confess - really , Sir , I shou'd not care what became of half the women you are pleas'd to be ...
... pleasure but in the chase ; the game is always given to those who have less taste , and better stomachs . Ruf . I love to pick a bit , I must confess - really , Sir , I shou'd not care what became of half the women you are pleas'd to be ...
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Page 247 - I'd let a parish of such Clotens' blood, And praise myself for charity. \Exit. Bel. O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head : and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind, That by the. top doth take the mountain pine And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 145 - Oh, my wife no more ! How dear her love was to me — Yet they stood, With a malicious silent joy, stood by, And saw her give up all my happiness, The treasure of her beauty, to another ; Stood by, and saw her married to another.
Page 140 - I was preserv'd but to be made a slave ; I often writ to my hard father, but never had An answer ; I writ to thee too / Isa. What a world of woe Had been prevented but in hearing from you ! Bir. Alas ! thou couldst not help me.
Page 143 - I have said too much, unless I could speak all. Bir. Thy words are wild ; my eyes, my ears, my heart, Were all so full of thee, so much employed In wonder of thy charms, I could not find it : Now I perceive it plain Isa.
Page 88 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 205 - Nay, followed him, till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat to air ; and then Have turned mine eye and wept.
Page 132 - I have leave at last to call you mine ! But let me look upon you, view you well. This is a welcome gallantry indeed ! I durst not ask, but it was kind to grant, Just at this time : dispensing with your dress Upon this second day to greet our friends.
Page 159 - Accuse, condemn me; let the sentence reach My hated life— No matter how it comes, I'll think it just and thank you as it falls. Self-murder is denied me.
Page 131 - Of any other wish, be nothing mine ! — But let me look upon you, view you well. This is a welcome gallantry indeed ! I...
Page 132 - My Carlos too, who came in to the support Of our bad fortune, has an honest right, In better times, to share the good with us. CAR. I come to claim that right, to share your joy ; To wish you joy ; and find it in myself; For a friend's happiness reflects a warmth, A kindly comfort, into every heart That is not envious.