Bell's British Theatre, Volume 13John Bell J. Bell, 1797 |
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... speak to her [ turning to a rose - tree , and plucking the flowers . ] Now or never is the time to conquer myself : besides , I have some reason to believe the girl has no aversion to me : and , as I wish not to do her an injury , it ...
... speak to her [ turning to a rose - tree , and plucking the flowers . ] Now or never is the time to conquer myself : besides , I have some reason to believe the girl has no aversion to me : and , as I wish not to do her an injury , it ...
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... cease , to persevere ; Speak not what I must not hear ; To my heart it's ease restore ; Go , and never see me more . SCENE IV . Young MEADOWS . This girl is a Biij Aa I. 17 LOVE IN A VILLAGE . can never happen. [hums a tune.] ...
... cease , to persevere ; Speak not what I must not hear ; To my heart it's ease restore ; Go , and never see me more . SCENE IV . Young MEADOWS . This girl is a Biij Aa I. 17 LOVE IN A VILLAGE . can never happen. [hums a tune.] ...
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... speak to her , she will hardly give me an answer ; and , if I attempt the smallest familiarity , is gone in an instant - I feet my passion for her , grow every day more and more violent - Well , would I marry her ? -would I make a ...
... speak to her , she will hardly give me an answer ; and , if I attempt the smallest familiarity , is gone in an instant - I feet my passion for her , grow every day more and more violent - Well , would I marry her ? -would I make a ...
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... speak to you a bit . Hodge . Well ; what sayn you ? 431 Mar. Dear heart , how can you be so barbarous ? and is this the way you serve me after all ; and won't you keep your word , Hodge ? Hodge . Why no I won't , I tell you ; I have ...
... speak to you a bit . Hodge . Well ; what sayn you ? 431 Mar. Dear heart , how can you be so barbarous ? and is this the way you serve me after all ; and won't you keep your word , Hodge ? Hodge . Why no I won't , I tell you ; I have ...
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... speak . Mar. Yes do , speak your worst . Hodge . Why then , if you go to that , you were fain to leave your own village down in the West , for a bastard you had by the clerk of the parish , and I'll bring the man shall say it to your ...
... speak . Mar. Yes do , speak your worst . Hodge . Why then , if you go to that , you were fain to leave your own village down in the West , for a bastard you had by the clerk of the parish , and I'll bring the man shall say it to your ...
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Alith Alithea Belu Belv Belville Braz Brazen brother cann't Captain Plume child Cimb Cimberton CONSCIOUS LOVERS coxcomb daughter dear devil Eust Exeunt Exit father fellow fool fortune gentleman girl give gone hand Harc Harcourt hear heart Hodge honest honour hope Humph Humphrey Isab Justice justice of peace kiss Kite lady letter look Look'e lover Lucinda Lucy madam maid marriage marry master Hawthorn Melinda mistress Moody Myrt Myrtle never on't Peggy Phil Phillis poor pray pretty racter recruiting rogue Rose Rossetta SCENE Seal Sealand serjeant servant shew Sir Geoffry Sir J. B. Sir William sister Spark Sparkish speak sure Sylvia talk tell thee there's thing thou thought told town Tummas what's wife woman Wood WOODCOCK worship Worthy write young
Popular passages
Page 10 - Kite. Oh! a mighty large bed ! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware — ten thousand people may lie in it together and never feel one another.
Page 50 - I like him the better : I was just such another fellow at his age : " I never set my heart upon any * * woman so much as to make myself uneasy at the " disappointment; but what was very surprising both " to myself and friends, I chang'd o' th' sudden from " the most fickle lover to the most constant husband
Page 46 - I have known thee a great while, never go, if I do not love thee as well as a new acquaintance.
Page 63 - Lord, what d'ye make a fool of me for ? Don't I know that letters are never writ but from the ) country to London, and from London into the country ? Now he's in town, and I am in town too ; therefore I can't write to him, you know.
Page 120 - Pardon ! No, no, child, your crime shall be your punishment. — Here, Captain, I deliver her over to the conjugal power for her chastisement ; since she will be a wife, be you a husband, a very husband. When she tells you of her love, upbraid her with her folly ; be modishly ungrateful, because she has been unfashionably kind, and use her worse than you would anybody else, because you can't use her so well as she deserves.
Page 101 - Ind. Yet, then, to find the most charming of mankind once more to set me free from what I thought the last distress, to load me with his services, his bounties, and his...
Page 67 - I am this moment obliged to be at every one of them, and 'twould be wrong if I should not be in the hall to attend one of 'em at least ; the rest would take it ill else. Therefore, I must leave what I have said to Mr. Serjeant's consideration, and I will digest his arguments on my part, and you shall hear from me again, sir.
Page 10 - I don't beat my drums here to ensnare or inveigle any man ; for you must know, gentlemen, that I am a man of honour ; besides, I don't beat up for common soldiers — no, I list only grenadiers — grenadiers, gentlemen.
Page 16 - For whom ? Plume. For a regiment. — But for a woman ! — 'Sdeath ! I have been constant to fifteen at a time, but ] never melancholy for one ; and can the love of one bring / you into this pickle? Pray, who is this miraculous Helen? Wor. A Helen indeed, not to be won under a ten years' siege : as great a beauty, and as great a jilt.
Page 98 - Seal. Yes, madam, there came to my hands a bill drawn by Mr. Bevil, which is payable to-morrow ; and he, in the intercourse of business, sent it to me, who have cash of his, and desired me to send a servant with it; but I have made bold to bring you the money myself.