The School for Scandal: A Comedy in Five ActsMr. Daly, 1874 - 92 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... Crab . Lady Sneerwell , I kiss your hand . [ Crosses to MRS . CANDOUR . ] - Mrs . Candour , I don't believe you are acquainted with my nephew , Sir Benjamin Backbite ? Egad ! ma'am , he has a pretty wit , and is a pretty poet , too ...
... Crab . Lady Sneerwell , I kiss your hand . [ Crosses to MRS . CANDOUR . ] - Mrs . Candour , I don't believe you are acquainted with my nephew , Sir Benjamin Backbite ? Egad ! ma'am , he has a pretty wit , and is a pretty poet , too ...
Pagina 22
... Crab . I'faith , ma'am , ' twould surprise you to hear how ready he is at these things . [ Sits L. with MRS . CANDOUR . Lady S. [ Sits R. ] I wonder , Sir Benjamin , you never pub- lish anything . [ Chocolate is here handed round by the ...
... Crab . I'faith , ma'am , ' twould surprise you to hear how ready he is at these things . [ Sits L. with MRS . CANDOUR . Lady S. [ Sits R. ] I wonder , Sir Benjamin , you never pub- lish anything . [ Chocolate is here handed round by the ...
Pagina 23
... Crab . That they do , I'll be sworn , ma'am . [ To SURFACE . ] O lud ! Mr. Surface , pray is it true that your uncle , Sir Oliver , is coming home ? Joseph S. [ L. ] Not that I know of , indeed , sir . Crab . [ R. of JOSEPH . ] He has ...
... Crab . That they do , I'll be sworn , ma'am . [ To SURFACE . ] O lud ! Mr. Surface , pray is it true that your uncle , Sir Oliver , is coming home ? Joseph S. [ L. ] Not that I know of , indeed , sir . Crab . [ R. of JOSEPH . ] He has ...
Pagina 24
... Crab . No , no ; ' fore Gad , very clever for an extempore ! Sir B. [ c . ] But , ladies , you should be acquainted with the circumstance . You must know , that one day last week , as Lady Betty Curricle was taking the dust in Hyde Park ...
... Crab . No , no ; ' fore Gad , very clever for an extempore ! Sir B. [ c . ] But , ladies , you should be acquainted with the circumstance . You must know , that one day last week , as Lady Betty Curricle was taking the dust in Hyde Park ...
Pagina 25
... Crab . [ R. ] I am very glad you think so , ma'am . Mrs. C. She has a charming fresh color . Lady T. [ Crosses , C. ] Yes , when it is fresh put on . Mrs. C. Oh , fie ! I'll swear her color is natural : I have seen it come and go . Lady ...
... Crab . [ R. ] I am very glad you think so , ma'am . Mrs. C. She has a charming fresh color . Lady T. [ Crosses , C. ] Yes , when it is fresh put on . Mrs. C. Oh , fie ! I'll swear her color is natural : I have seen it come and go . Lady ...
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Abington acquaintance acted AUGUSTIN DALY believe brother bumper Candour Careless certainly character Charles Fisher CHARLES SURFACE Charles's comedy Covent Garden Crab Crabtree Crosses R. C. DALY'S THEATRE dear Sir distresses Drury Lane Egad Enter LADY TEAZLE Enter SERVANT Exeunt Exit SERVANT extravagance Fanny Davenport Farren French milliner Gad's gentleman give Goes hear heard heart honest honor i'faith JANUARY 20 John Brougham JOSEPH SURFACE knock Lady Sneerwell ladyship laugh little Premium Love for Love ma'am madam Maria married Master Rowley Miss Moses nephew never old bachelor old Stanley on't plague pounds pray pretty woman Pshaw RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Rises rogue School for Scandal screen sentiment Sheridan Sir Benjamin Backbite SIR OLIVER SURFACE Sir Peter Teazle Sits Snake sorry suppose Teazle's tell Theatre there's thing Trip true twas what's wife word young Zounds
Populaire passages
Pagina 27 - That's very true, indeed, Sir Peter ! and, after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow.
Pagina 31 - I know there are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
Pagina 19 - Nay, now, Lady Sneerwell, you are severe upon the widow. Come, come, 'tis not that she paints so ill — but, when she has finished her face, she joins it on so badly to her neck, that she looks like a mended statue, in which the connoisseur may see at once that the head is modern, though the trunk's antique.
Pagina 44 - Here's to the maid with a bosom of snow; Now to her that's as brown as a berry; Here's to the wife with a face full of woe, And now to the damsel that's merry.
Pagina 35 - I'll accompany you as soon as you please, Moses — But hold ! I have forgot one thing — how the plague shall I be able to pass for a Jew ? Moses.
Pagina 32 - Wild ! Ah ! my old friend, I grieve for your disappointment there ; he's a lost young man, indeed. However, his brother will make you amends. Joseph is, indeed, what a youth should be. Everybody in the world speaks well of him.
Pagina 25 - I ought to have my own way in everything; and what's more, I will too. What ! though I was educated in the country, I know very well that women of fashion in London are accountable to nobody after they are married. Sir P. Very well, ma'am, very well; — so a husband is to have no influence, no authority ? Lady T. Authority ! No, to be sure : — if you wanted authority over me, you should have adopted me, and not married me : I am sure you were old enough.
Pagina 15 - Nay, egad it's true: I back him at a rebus or a charade against the best rhymer in the kingdom. Has your ladyship heard the epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's feather catching fire? — Do, Benjamin, repeat it, or the charade you made last night extempore at Mrs. Drowzie's conversazione. Come now; your first is the name of a fish, your second a great naval commander, and Sir Ben. Uncle, now — pr'ythee Crab. I'faith, ma'am, 'twould surprise you to hear how ready he is at all these sort...
Pagina 40 - Terrier, who everybody said would have been a better match? for his estate is just as good as yours, and he has broke his neck since we have been married.
Pagina 58 - Upon my word, you ought to pity me. Do you know Sir Peter is grown so ill-natured to me of late, and so jealous of Charles too — that's the best of the story, isn't it?