William CongreveT.F. Unwin, 1903 - 486 pagina's Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 give twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants. Sequel to "Silver Days." |
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Pagina 123
... PLYANT and Lady PLYANT . Sir Paul . [ Aside to Lady PLYANT . ] Gadsbud ! I am provoked into a fermentation , as my Lady Froth says ; was ever the like read of in story ? Lady Ply . [ Aside to Sir PAUL . ] Sir Paul , have patience ; let ...
... PLYANT and Lady PLYANT . Sir Paul . [ Aside to Lady PLYANT . ] Gadsbud ! I am provoked into a fermentation , as my Lady Froth says ; was ever the like read of in story ? Lady Ply . [ Aside to Sir PAUL . ] Sir Paul , have patience ; let ...
Pagina 124
... Lady Plyant : I find passion coming upon me by inflation , and I cannot submit as formerly , therefore give way . Lady Ply . How now ! will you be pleased to retire , and- Sir Paul . No , marry , will I not be pleased ! I am pleased to ...
... Lady Plyant : I find passion coming upon me by inflation , and I cannot submit as formerly , therefore give way . Lady Ply . How now ! will you be pleased to retire , and- Sir Paul . No , marry , will I not be pleased ! I am pleased to ...
Pagina 125
... Lady Ply . Dishonourable , impudent creature ! Mel . For Heaven's sake , madam , to whom do you direct this language ? Lady Ply . Have I behaved myself with all the decorum and nicety befitting the person of Sir Paul's wife ? have I ...
... Lady Ply . Dishonourable , impudent creature ! Mel . For Heaven's sake , madam , to whom do you direct this language ? Lady Ply . Have I behaved myself with all the decorum and nicety befitting the person of Sir Paul's wife ? have I ...
Pagina 126
... Lady Ply . Why , gad's my life , Cousin Mellefont , you cannot be so peremptory as to deny it , when I tax you with it to your face ! for , now Sir Paul's gone , you are corum nobus . Mel . By Heaven , I love her more than life , or— Lady ...
... Lady Ply . Why , gad's my life , Cousin Mellefont , you cannot be so peremptory as to deny it , when I tax you with it to your face ! for , now Sir Paul's gone , you are corum nobus . Mel . By Heaven , I love her more than life , or— Lady ...
Pagina 127
... Lady Ply . And nobody knows how circumstances may happen together . To my thinking , now , I could resist the strongest temptation . - But yet I know , ' tis impossible for me to know whether I could or not ; there's no certainty in the ...
... Lady Ply . And nobody knows how circumstances may happen together . To my thinking , now , I could resist the strongest temptation . - But yet I know , ' tis impossible for me to know whether I could or not ; there's no certainty in the ...
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Almeria Alphonso Angelica Aram Belin Bell BELLMOUR better Bluffe Brisk confess Congreve Cynthia d'ye dear devil dost thou egad Enter Exeunt Exit eyes face Fain FAINALL faith father Foib Foible Fond fool Fore Foresight Frail give hast hear heart Heartwell Heaven honour hope husband JEREMY kiss Lady Froth Lady Ply Lady Touch Lady Wish ladyship Læt look Lord Froth Lord Harry Lord Touch Lord TOUCHWOOD lover Lucy madam marry Marwood Mask Maskwell Mellefont Millamant Mirabell never on't Osmyn passion play PLYANT pray prithee Prue Scan Scandal SCENE Sharp Silv Sir Fo Sir Joseph Sir Paul Sir Rowland Sir Samp Sir Sampson Sir Wil Sir Wilfull speak swear Tattle tell thee there's thing thou art thought Vainlove Valentine what's wife WILLIAM CONGREVE Witwoud woman Zara
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Pagina xv - I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
Pagina 435 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Pagina 96 - em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. 50 Yet this I prophesy ; thou shalt be seen, (Though with some short parenthesis between), High on the throne of wit ; and, seated there, Not mine, that's little, but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made ; That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and...
Pagina xxx - Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little service should he remember it to his dying day : " " The miracle to-day is, that we find A lover true, not that a woman 's kind.
Pagina 371 - My lady loves her, and will come to any composition to save her reputation. Take the opportunity of breaking it, just upon the discovery of this imposture. My lady will be enraged beyond bounds, and sacrifice niece, and fortune, and all at that conjuncture.
Pagina 372 - I will contrive a letter which shall be delivered to my lady at the time when that rascal who is to act Sir Rowland is with her. It shall come as from an unknown hand — for the less I appear to know of the truth, the better I can play the incendiary.
Pagina 405 - And, sir, I assert my right; and will maintain it in defiance of you, sir, and of your instrument. 'Sheart, an you talk of an instrument sir, I have an old fox...
Pagina 401 - Next, my wife shall settle on me the remainder of her fortune, not made over already ; and for her maintenance depend entirely on my discretion. LADY. This is most inhumanly savage : exceeding the barbarity of a Muscovite husband.
Pagina 96 - So much the sweetness of your manners move, We cannot envy you, because we love. Fabius might joy in Scipio, when he saw A beardless consul made against the law, And join his suffrage to the votes of Rome ; Though he with Hannibal was overcome. Thus old Romano...