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Pagina 2
... scene we are surprised by reflections and remarks so tersely and humorously turned as to appear like a fresh revelation . In common with all the comedies of Congreve , the language here is polished till it admits of no further ...
... scene we are surprised by reflections and remarks so tersely and humorously turned as to appear like a fresh revelation . In common with all the comedies of Congreve , the language here is polished till it admits of no further ...
Pagina 8
... Lady , in love with BELLMOUR . LÆTITIA , Wife to FONDLEWIFE . SILVIA , VAINLOVE'S forsaken Mistress . LUCY , her Maid . BETTY , Maid to ARAMINTA . Dancers , and Attendants . SCENE - LONDON . THE OLD BACHELOR B ACT THE FIRST . SCENE I.
... Lady , in love with BELLMOUR . LÆTITIA , Wife to FONDLEWIFE . SILVIA , VAINLOVE'S forsaken Mistress . LUCY , her Maid . BETTY , Maid to ARAMINTA . Dancers , and Attendants . SCENE - LONDON . THE OLD BACHELOR B ACT THE FIRST . SCENE I.
Pagina 11
WILLIAM CONGREVE. THE OLD BACHELOR . ACT THE FIRST . SCENE I. The Street . BELLMOUR and VAINLOVE meeting . ELL . Vainlove , and abroad so early ! good morrow . I thought a contem- plative lover could no more have parted with his bed in a ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE. THE OLD BACHELOR . ACT THE FIRST . SCENE I. The Street . BELLMOUR and VAINLOVE meeting . ELL . Vainlove , and abroad so early ! good morrow . I thought a contem- plative lover could no more have parted with his bed in a ...
Pagina 16
... to read a play on a rainy day , though you should now and then be interrupted in a witty scene , and she perhaps preserve her laughter , ' till the jest were over ! even that may be borne with , considering 16 [ ACT I. THE OLD BACHELOR . .
... to read a play on a rainy day , though you should now and then be interrupted in a witty scene , and she perhaps preserve her laughter , ' till the jest were over ! even that may be borne with , considering 16 [ ACT I. THE OLD BACHELOR . .
Pagina 23
... have so cheap an opportunity of ex- pressing your gratitude and generosity ; since the paying of so trivial a sum will wholly acquit you and doubly engage me . I Sir Fo . [ Asiae . ] What , a SCENE 1. ] THE OLD BACHELOR . 23.
... have so cheap an opportunity of ex- pressing your gratitude and generosity ; since the paying of so trivial a sum will wholly acquit you and doubly engage me . I Sir Fo . [ Asiae . ] What , a SCENE 1. ] THE OLD BACHELOR . 23.
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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 ii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Pagina 431 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness 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 343 - Now you must know they could not commend one if one was not handsome. Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.
Pagina 374 - Ah! don't be impertinent. — My dear liberty, shall I leave thee? My faithful solitude, my darling contemplation, must I bid you then adieu? Ay-h adieu — - my morning thoughts, agreeable wakings, indolent slumbers, all ye douceurs, ye sommeils du matin, adieu? - - I can't do't, 'tis more than impossible — positively, Mirabell, I'll lie abed in a morning as long as I please.
Pagina 342 - Ay, ay, suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power, to destroy your lover — and then how vain, how lost a thing you'll be! Nay, 'tis true: you are no longer handsome when you've lost your lover; your beauty dies upon the instant; for beauty Is the lover's gift; 'tis he bestows your charms — your glass is all a cheat.
Pagina 317 - till of late; I confess I am not one of those coxcombs who are apt to interpret a woman's good manners to her prejudice; and think that she who does not refuse 'em everything, can refuse 'em nothing.
Pagina 400 - I confess it had a face of guiltiness — it was at most an artifice which love contrived; and errors which love produces have ever been accounted venial. At least think it is punishment enough, that I have lost what in my heart I hold most dear, that to your cruel indignation I have offered up this beauty, and with her my peace and quiet; nay, all my hopes of future comfort.
Pagina 375 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after. Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well-bred; let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well bred as if we were not married at all.
Pagina 347 - Married, knighted, and attended all in one day! 'tis enough to make any man forget himself. The difficulty will be how to recover my acquaintance and familiarity with my former self, and fall from my , transformation to a reformation into Waitwell. Nay, I shan't be quite the same Waitwell neither; for now, I remember me, I'm married, and can't be my own man again.
Pagina 397 - 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.