What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAlderman Lombard assure bard Barrister Bath behaviour better blunderbuss borough Camp Camply's certainly chair cissa colonel Camply comes cou'd Court daughter dead dear colonel dear mama disobedience doctor Egad Enter General Melmoth Enter Lord Courtly Enter Narcissa Enter Syllogism Enter young Exeunt Exit fake father favour fellow fortune Frederic Melmoth Furn Furnival gamester gentleman girl give glad Gluttonbury gout hand happiness hath hear heard heart heaven hither honour hope husband India lady's leave live lodgings Lomb lordship Ma'am Madam mama marriage married matter mean Melm Mild Mildmay Mineral mistress morning moth Narc naughty girl never night present SCENE Scotland servant shou'd Sift Sir John Melmoth Soph Sophy sorry stand suppose sure surprize T.Mel tell thee thing thou thought true twill unlucky wife wou'd young lady young Mel Young Melmoth Popular passagesPage 89 - He has more honour, than to work without 'em. • Should you (to the fit} whofe (kill and wifdoin we acknowledge, ThefeHoivs of this old dramatic college, (No matter what the caufe of altercation) Croud hither ev'ry night for difputation ; The bard, half dead before, enjoys the fport, Gets ftrength each day, and is the better for't. Warm'd with this... Page 89 - I'll feel, And by their beating will their thoughts reveal. (fie acls the doftor feeling a pulfe.) Languid, and low — Wildman's old-fafliion'd ftory Was much too nervous, to be fet before ye : For twelve long years a tender wife forfaking, Worn out with wand'ring, and, what's worfe, with raking, And then return — ihe was not worth the taking. Page 89 - Suppofe this gown, a fuit of velvet, plain, With a gold button, and this fan, a cane ; My cap a formal rye, moft wifely big, O, no— I had forgot — a fmart bag wig : Wo phyfic-bufhes now are feen in town ; For all the figns, yon know, are taken down ; Call me licentiate, fellow, what you will, I'll feel your pulles afl,— and prove my fkrll. Page 49 - ... the publick have taken them under their protection, a bard, like another man, may have two coats to his back, and every thing handfome about him. Page 15 - Then you think wrong, Narcifia. I know, by woful experience, the danger of trifling with a heart that loves one. It was this fatal indifcretion in... Page 14 - Blefs me, mama, what harm can there be in the indulgence .of a little harmlefs mirth ? Is it poflible my chearfulnefs can give any body offence ? Page 15 - I fhou'd. but ill difcharge the duty of a mother, Narcifla, if I did not confefs, and that without any par* ticular objection to Mr. Bibliographic information |