Brooke, Mrs. Rosina. Bickerstaffe, I. The padlock. Allingham, J. T. Fortune's frolick. Cowley, Mrs. Who's the dupe? Macklin, C. Love à la mode

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Seite 52 - O, sir, yee do no ken the law — the law is a sort of hocuspocus science, that smiles in yeer face, while it picks yeer pocket : and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it — Here the parties come, and seemingly in great affliction.
Seite 8 - When you came hither, you were taken from a mean little house, ill situated, and worse furnished; you had no servants, and were obliged, with your mother, to do the work yourself.
Seite 28 - I endeavoured to get all I could from the old woman's grand-daughter ; but all she knew was, that she was no kin to Dorcas, and that she had had a good bringing-up : but here are the labourers. Bel. Let the cloth be laid on these sheaves. Behold the table of happiness ! but I don't see Rosina.
Seite 12 - When the rosy morn, appearing. Paints with gold the verdant lawn, Bees, on banks of thyme disporting, Sip the sweets, and hail the dawn. Warbling birds, the day proclaiming, Carol sweet the lively strain ; They forsake their leafy dwelling, To secure the golden grain.
Seite 43 - Unveil your whole heart to me, Rosina. The graces of your form, the native dignity of your mind which breaks through the lovely simplicity of your deportment, a thousand circumstances concur to convince me you were not born a villager.
Seite 31 - I not said to you a thousand times that he was very kind to you, and you ought to strive to please him? It would be a hard thing to be preaching from morning till night without any profit.
Seite 51 - Sir T. I am obliged to you, Sir, you do but your duty: the young lady is that way, Sir ; if you will step to her, I'll follow you. [Exit...
Seite 24 - I was in hopes the campaign had been quite over in Germany for this winter. Sir C. Yes, Madam, it was quite over, but it begun again : a true genius never loves to quit the field till he has left himself nothing to do; for then, you know, Madam, he can keep it with more safety.
Seite 24 - Perez, a tailor by trade, of the grayhound make, lank ; and, if my memory fail me not, his right shoulder about the breadth of my hand higher than his left: but he was upright as an arrow, and, by all accounts, one of the finest workmen at a button-hole.
Seite 34 - Diego. Horrid creature ! what makes you here at this time of night? .; Is it with a design to surprise the innocents in their beds, and murder them sleeping?

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