The Northern Heiress: Or, the Humours of York. A Comedy. As it was Acted at the New-Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Mrs. Mary DavÿsH. Meere, 1716 - 72 pages |
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... Gentlemen were to damn this Play ; and it is still an Addition to that Vanity , to think how fuperior a Number there was ... Gentleman would have fhewn a greater Contempt , had he said , This is a Woman's Play , and confequently below my ...
... Gentlemen were to damn this Play ; and it is still an Addition to that Vanity , to think how fuperior a Number there was ... Gentleman would have fhewn a greater Contempt , had he said , This is a Woman's Play , and confequently below my ...
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... the Stage ? I told her this ; but he wou'd not fubmit , Wou'd ftill be obftinate ; ' tis therefore fit The Play was damn'd , to teach the Author Wit . Dramatis MEN . Gamont . A Gentleman makes Love to the The EPILOGUE .
... the Stage ? I told her this ; but he wou'd not fubmit , Wou'd ftill be obftinate ; ' tis therefore fit The Play was damn'd , to teach the Author Wit . Dramatis MEN . Gamont . A Gentleman makes Love to the The EPILOGUE .
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Mary Davys. MEN . Gamont . A Gentleman makes Love to the Heirefs . Welby . A Gentleman just come from Travel , in Love with Louifa . Sir Jeffrey Hearty . A good Sort of a Country Knight . Sir Loobily Joddrel . A Fool . · Bareface . A Fop ...
Mary Davys. MEN . Gamont . A Gentleman makes Love to the Heirefs . Welby . A Gentleman just come from Travel , in Love with Louifa . Sir Jeffrey Hearty . A good Sort of a Country Knight . Sir Loobily Joddrel . A Fool . · Bareface . A Fop ...
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... Gentleman does not come to a better Refolution , I fhall have nothing else to keep me from hanging my felf , unless I turn Speaker to a Quaker - Meeting , and renounce the Flesh for the Spirit.- Let me fee : Faith , I believe it would ...
... Gentleman does not come to a better Refolution , I fhall have nothing else to keep me from hanging my felf , unless I turn Speaker to a Quaker - Meeting , and renounce the Flesh for the Spirit.- Let me fee : Faith , I believe it would ...
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... Gentleman , that was unlucky . Well , he'll find you again at the Races ; for by the Marks you have given of him , I fancy he is in a fair Way of being us'd like his Fellow - Creatures . Ifa . Mr. Gamont , he that complains without a ...
... Gentleman , that was unlucky . Well , he'll find you again at the Races ; for by the Marks you have given of him , I fancy he is in a fair Way of being us'd like his Fellow - Creatures . Ifa . Mr. Gamont , he that complains without a ...
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Page 26 - ... Jeffrey Hearty, is introduced. He is delighted to see the substantial fare of which the city ladies have been partaking. " Aye," says he, " this is like the good old-fashioned way of housekeeping. I expected to have found you all set round a table no bigger than a pasteboard, and not much stronger, by my troth! with a parcel of little crocks that hold no more than a girl would drink before her sweetheart.
Page 29 - Aye, aye, if a friend comes to town, they come to drink with you for joy; if they go out of town, they come to help you to wash away sorrow; so that the good people are resolved to share both your pleasure and your pain, provided they may have a little victuals and drink to keep up their spirits.
Page 18 - I forgot as foon as I left it. No, Reading's too laborious for a Gentleman ; I thank Heaven I can be more pleaiaiitly ernploy'd. Wei. Sir, if the Queftion would not be thought impertinent, I uould" be glad to know how you da fpenxl your Time., . ,, Bare.
Page 15 - Why, we have abundance of People, but little Company ; much Ceremony, but little Manners; many Folks with Titles, but few of Quality, tho5 the whole Town abounds with Ladies.