Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English PlaysJ. Bell; & C. Etherington, 1780 |
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Page 14 - I'm sure. No, no, girl, there are certain ingredients to be mingled with matrimony, without which I may as well change for the worse as the better. When the woman has fortune enough to make the man happy, if he has either honour or good manners, he'll make her easy. Love makes but a slovenly figure in a house, where poverty keeps the doer.
Page 40 - Yet the way of living here is very apt to deaden the complexion and, give me leave to tell you, as a friend, madam, you are come to the worst place in the •world, for a good woman to grow better in. Lady Wrong.
Page 85 - Townly here, with another rantipole dame of quality, and out they must have her, they said, to introduce her at my Lady Noble's assembly, forsooth A few words, you may be sure, made the bargain — so, bawnce ! and away they drive, as if the devil had got into the coach-box so, about four or five in the morning — home comes madam, with her eyes a foot deep in her head — and my poor hundred pounds left behind her at the hazard-table.
Page 27 - But, to let you see that I think good company may sometimes want cards to keep them together, what think you, if we three sat soberly down to kill an hour at ombre ? Manly.
Page 13 - Why, then, my lord, to give you at once a proof of my obedience and sincerity — I think — I married — to take off that restraint that lay upon my pleasures while I was a single woman.
Page 59 - I expire. — Then I love play, to distraction ! — cards enchant me — and dice — put me out of my little wits — Dear, dear hazard ! — Oh, what a flow of spirits it gives one !— Do you never play at hazard, child ? Lady G.
Page 58 - I shan't trouble you — pox take him for an unmannerly dog — However, I have kept my word with my Dutchman, and will introduce him too for all you. [Exit. Enter Colonel in a Quaker's habit.
Page 22 - till his money is gone; or, at least, 'till the session is over ? MAN. If my intelligence is right, my lord, he won't sit long enough to give his vote for a turnpike.
Page 95 - I triumphed over hearts, while all my pleasure was their pain: yet was my own so equally insensible to all, that, when a father's firm commands, enjoined me to make choice of one, I even there declined the liberty he gave, and, to his own election, yielded up my youth. — his tender care, my lord, directed him to you — Our .hands were joined, but still my heart was wedded to its folly : — My only joy was power, command, society, profuseness, and to lead in pleasures.