A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage. ....

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C. Elliot, 1786

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Seite 35 - In beholding your charms, I can see them no more, In beholding your charms, I can see them no more, If you're dead do but own it; Then you'll hear me bemoan it; For in loud lamentations your fate I'll deplore.
Seite 6 - ... that we might take the gallows in flank, and at all events secure a retreat, who should come by but a drove of fat oxen for Smithfield.
Seite 24 - Bruin. Well, I like it so well, that I hope to see one every year. Bruin. Do you ? Why then you will be damnably bit ; you may take your leave, I can tell you ; for this is the last you shall see.
Seite 68 - Ye gods ! you gave to me a wife, Out of your grace and favour, To be the comfort of my life, And I was glad to have her : But if your Providence Divine, For greater bliss design her, To obey your wills at any time I am ready to resign her.
Seite 7 - ... no jumping over heads, no underhand work among us ; all men of honour ; and I must do the regiment the justice to say, there never was a set of more amiable officers. SIR J.
Seite 26 - Miss Molly Jollup to be married to Sneak ! to take up at last with such a noodle as he ! Sneak. Ay, and glad enough you could catch me : you know, you was pretty near your last legs.
Seite 247 - Tat. Seen what, my royal mistress ? Queen. Too, too much ! Tat. Did it affright you ? Queen. No ; 'tis nothing such. Tat. What was it, madam ? Queen. Really, I don't know. Tat. It must be something ? Queen. No ! Tat. Or nothing ? Queen. No ! Tat. Then, I conclude, of...
Seite 14 - And fo he may ; but I know better what to do with my money : indeed, if the war had but continued awhile, I don't know what mought ha' been done; but this plaguy peace, with a pox to't, has knock'd up all the trade of the Alley.
Seite 14 - For the matter of that, we can afford it well enough as it is. Bruin. And how do you know that? Who told you as much, Mrs. Mixen? I hope I know the world better than to trust my concerns with a wife : no, no, thank you for that Mrs. Jane. Mrs.
Seite 6 - The major made a fine disposition : on we marched, the men all in high spirits, to attack the gibbet where Gardel is hanging; but, turning down a narrow lane to the left, as it might be about there, in order to possess a...

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