The Modern British Drama: Operas and farcesWilliam Miller, 1811 - English drama |
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... present very busy in contriving some trick to save myself ! I am first prudent , and then good - natured . Oct. How will my father rage and storm , when Oct. Villain ! Shift . I have done , sir , I have done . Oct. I have no friend that ...
... present very busy in contriving some trick to save myself ! I am first prudent , and then good - natured . Oct. How will my father rage and storm , when Oct. Villain ! Shift . I have done , sir , I have done . Oct. I have no friend that ...
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... present want must be consi- dered ; I am in rebellion without money . Sca . I have tricks and shifts , too , to get that : I can cheat upon occasion ; but cheating is now grown an ill - trade : yet , Heaven be thanked , there were never ...
... present want must be consi- dered ; I am in rebellion without money . Sca . I have tricks and shifts , too , to get that : I can cheat upon occasion ; but cheating is now grown an ill - trade : yet , Heaven be thanked , there were never ...
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... present of this ring . Peach . I have set his name down in the black- list ; that's all , my dear ! he spends his life among women , and , as soon as his money is gone , one reward ; and there's forty pounds lost to us for or other of ...
... present of this ring . Peach . I have set his name down in the black- list ; that's all , my dear ! he spends his life among women , and , as soon as his money is gone , one reward ; and there's forty pounds lost to us for or other of ...
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... present time is ours , and nobody alive hath more . Why are the laws levelled at us ? Are we more dishonest than the rest of mankind ? What we win , gentlemen , is our own by the law of arms , and the right of conquest . Crook . Where ...
... present time is ours , and nobody alive hath more . Why are the laws levelled at us ? Are we more dishonest than the rest of mankind ? What we win , gentlemen , is our own by the law of arms , and the right of conquest . Crook . Where ...
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... present a partner to each of you ; and ( if I may without offence ) for this time I take Polly for mine and for life , you slut , for we were really married - As for the rest - But at present keep your own secret . [ To Polly . [ A ...
... present a partner to each of you ; and ( if I may without offence ) for this time I take Polly for mine and for life , you slut , for we were really married - As for the rest - But at present keep your own secret . [ To Polly . [ A ...
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