The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Convent Gardin, Haymarket, and Lyceum, Volume 7Mrs. Inchbald Hurst, Robinson, 1824 - English drama |
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... fair ; For till the dawn of love is there , I feel no day , I own no light . LOUISA - replies from a Window . Waking , I heard thy numbers chide , Waking , the dawn did bless my sight , ' Tis Phabus sure , that woos , I cried , Who ...
... fair ; For till the dawn of love is there , I feel no day , I own no light . LOUISA - replies from a Window . Waking , I heard thy numbers chide , Waking , the dawn did bless my sight , ' Tis Phabus sure , that woos , I cried , Who ...
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... fair suitor you've brought her , Oh , what a plague is an obstinate daughter ! Wrangling and jangling , Flouting and pouting , Oh , what a plague is an obstinate daughter ! Enter LOUISA , dressed as the DUENNA , with Cardi- nal and Veil ...
... fair suitor you've brought her , Oh , what a plague is an obstinate daughter ! Wrangling and jangling , Flouting and pouting , Oh , what a plague is an obstinate daughter ! Enter LOUISA , dressed as the DUENNA , with Cardi- nal and Veil ...
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... fair ; And though in her face I no dimples should see , Let her smile , and each dell is a dimple to me . Let her locks be the reddest that ever were seen , And her eyes may be e'en any colour but green , Be they light , grey or black ...
... fair ; And though in her face I no dimples should see , Let her smile , and each dell is a dimple to me . Let her locks be the reddest that ever were seen , And her eyes may be e'en any colour but green , Be they light , grey or black ...
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... fair , being spangled here and there with a golden freckle . Isaac . Charming pretty rogue ! pray how is the tone of her voice ? Jerome . Remarkably pleasing - but if you could prevail on her to sing , you would be enchanted - she is a ...
... fair , being spangled here and there with a golden freckle . Isaac . Charming pretty rogue ! pray how is the tone of her voice ? Jerome . Remarkably pleasing - but if you could prevail on her to sing , you would be enchanted - she is a ...
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... fair skin , fine eyes , teeth of ivory , with a lovely bloom , and a delicate shape - if these , with a heavenly voice , and a world of grace , are not charms , I know not what you call beautiful . Isaac . Good lack , with what eyes a ...
... fair skin , fine eyes , teeth of ivory , with a lovely bloom , and a delicate shape - if these , with a heavenly voice , and a world of grace , are not charms , I know not what you call beautiful . Isaac . Good lack , with what eyes a ...
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Page 8 - I will own the colour true, When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft and pure ? I must press it, to be sure ; Nor can I be certain then, Till it grateful press again. Must I with attentive eye Watch her heaving bosom sigh ? I will do so — when I see That heaving...
Page 22 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest, And act a brother's part: Then, lady, dread not here deceit, Nor fear to suffer wrong ; For friends in all the aged you'll meet, And brothers in the young.
Page 37 - A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar: So fill a cheerful glass, And let good humour pass.
Page 47 - Why, I vow, I ne'er could see, Let the water-drinkers tell, There it always lay for me. For when sparkling wine went round, Never saw I falsehood's mask, But still honest truth I found, In the* bottom of each flask. True, at length my vigour's flown, I have years to bring decay ; Few the locks, that now I own. And the few I have are gray. Yet, old Jerome, thou may'st boast, While thy spirits do not tire, Still beneath thy age's frost Glows a spark of youthful fire.
Page 21 - I purchased some years ago; by me it will never be missed, and who ever marries my daughter will have little reason to complain of my disposing of such a trifle for my own gratification. On the present marriage I intended to perfect a deed of gift in your favour, which has been for some time...
Page 39 - But, my dear Colonel, I am afraid, after all, this affair is taken amiss by you ; yes, I see you are angry on your son's account; but let me repeat it, I have a very high opinion of his merit. Col.
Page 29 - What is the matter here ? Lady M. I will have a separate maintenance, I will indeed. Only a new instance of your father's infidelity, my dear. Then with such low wretches, farmers' daughters and servant wenches; but any thing with a cap on, 'tis all the same to him.
Page 31 - Your fault, Madam ! I wish I was to hear such a word come out of his mouth : if he was a minister to-morrow, and to say such a thing from his pulpit, and I by, I'd tell him it was false upon the spot.
Page 4 - Sir, I took the liberty to desire a few moments private conversation with you — I hope you will excuse it— i am really greatly embarrassed ; but, in an affair of such immediate consequence to us both — Jess.
Page 54 - Well, Master Jenkins ! don't you think now that a nobleman, a duke, an earl, or a marquis, might be content to share his title — I say, you understand me — with a sweetener of thirty or forty thousand pounds, to pay off mortgages ? Besides, there's a prospect of my whole estate; for I dare swear her brother will never have any children.