The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical SketchE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 pagina's |
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... There are few writers , I believe , who , even in the fullest consciousness of error , do not wish to palliate the faults which they acknowledge ; and , however trifling the performance , to second their confession of its deficiencies ...
... There are few writers , I believe , who , even in the fullest consciousness of error , do not wish to palliate the faults which they acknowledge ; and , however trifling the performance , to second their confession of its deficiencies ...
Pagina 2
With a Biographical and Critical Sketch Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt. consequence , there will always be found a ... there's no appeal ; No tricking here , to blunt the edge of law , Or , damn'd in equity , escape by flaw : But ...
With a Biographical and Critical Sketch Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt. consequence , there will always be found a ... there's no appeal ; No tricking here , to blunt the edge of law , Or , damn'd in equity , escape by flaw : But ...
Pagina 3
... There fix'd in usurpation should she stand , She'll snatch the dagger from her sister's hand : Look on this form * , - where humour , quaint And having made her votaries weep a flood , ACT I. Fag . Ah ! Thomas , there lies the mystery o ...
... There fix'd in usurpation should she stand , She'll snatch the dagger from her sister's hand : Look on this form * , - where humour , quaint And having made her votaries weep a flood , ACT I. Fag . Ah ! Thomas , there lies the mystery o ...
Pagina 4
... there's little Dick the farrier swears he'll never forsake his bob , though all the college should appear with their own heads ! Fag . Indeed ! well said , Dick ! -But hold- mark ! mark ! Thomas . Thos . Zooks ! ' tis the captain . - Is ...
... there's little Dick the farrier swears he'll never forsake his bob , though all the college should appear with their own heads ! Fag . Indeed ! well said , Dick ! -But hold- mark ! mark ! Thomas . Thos . Zooks ! ' tis the captain . - Is ...
Pagina 5
... there too . No , Lydia , he is too proud , too noble to be jealous ; if he is captious , ' tis without dis- sembling ; if fretful , without rudeness . Unused to the fopperies of love , he is negligent of the little duties expected from ...
... there too . No , Lydia , he is too proud , too noble to be jealous ; if he is captious , ' tis without dis- sembling ; if fretful , without rudeness . Unused to the fopperies of love , he is negligent of the little duties expected from ...
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Pagina 11 - I'll tell you what, Jack — I mean, you dog — if you don't, by Capt. A. What, Sir, promise to link myself to some mass of ugliness ; to Sir A. Zounds ! sirrah ! the lady shall be as ugly as I choose : she shall have a hump on each shoulder ; she shall be as crooked as the crescent ; her one eye shall roll like the bull's in Cox's museum ; she shall have a skin like a mummy, and the beard of a Jew — She shall be all this, sirrah ! yet I'll make you ogle her all day, and sit up all night, to write...
Pagina 19 - Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. ACRES. But David, now, you don't think there is such very, very, very great danger, hey? Odds life! people often fight without any mischief done!
Pagina 13 - tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice...
Pagina 83 - When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect ? 'Tis now six months since Lady Teazle made me the happiest of men...
Pagina 86 - Oh, to be sure! she has herself the oddest countenance that ever was seen; 'tis a collection of features from all the different countries of the globe. Sir Ben.
Pagina 91 - Agreed! agreed! And now, my dear Sir Peter, we are of a mind once more, we may be the happiest couple, and never differ again, you know: ha! ha! ha! Well, you are going to be in a passion, I see, and I shall only interrupt you — so, bye! bye!
Pagina 91 - tis evident you never cared a pin for me, and I was a madman to marry you — a pert, rural coquette, that had refused half the honest squires in the neighborhood.
Pagina 85 - I took you from ; but now you must have your coach — vis-a-vis — and three powdered footmen before your chair ; and, in the summer, a pair of white cats to draw you to Kensington Gardens.
Pagina 100 - Ah ! Charles, if you associated more with your brother, one might indeed hope for your reformation. He is a man of sentiment.
Pagina 10 - I did not expect it ; for I was going to write to you on a little matter of business. Jack, I have been considering that I grow old and infirm, and shall probably not trouble you long. Capt. A. Pardon me, sir, I never saw you look more strong and hearty, and I pray fervently that you may continue so.