The Modern British Drama: ComediesWalter Scott William Miller, 1811 - English drama |
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... live here obscure , and to myself : but were I known to his majesty , and the lords , observe me , I would undertake , upon this poor head and life , for the public benefit of the state , not only to spare the entire lives of his ...
... live here obscure , and to myself : but were I known to his majesty , and the lords , observe me , I would undertake , upon this poor head and life , for the public benefit of the state , not only to spare the entire lives of his ...
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... live free To all delights , my fortune calls me to ? I have no wife , no parent , child , ally , To give my substance to ; but whom I make , Must be my heir : And this makes men observe me . This draws new clients daily to my house ...
... live free To all delights , my fortune calls me to ? I have no wife , no parent , child , ally , To give my substance to ; but whom I make , Must be my heir : And this makes men observe me . This draws new clients daily to my house ...
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... live , Still , to delude these harpies . Volp . Loving Mosca , ' Tis well ; my pillow , now , and let him enter . Now , my feigned cough , my phthisic , and my gout . My apoplexy , palsy , and catarrhs , Help , with your forced ...
... live , Still , to delude these harpies . Volp . Loving Mosca , ' Tis well ; my pillow , now , and let him enter . Now , my feigned cough , my phthisic , and my gout . My apoplexy , palsy , and catarrhs , Help , with your forced ...
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... live longer ! Feels not his gout , nor palsy , feigns himself Younger by scores of years , flatters his age , With confident belying it , hopes he may With charms , like son , have his youth re- stored : And with these thoughts so ...
... live longer ! Feels not his gout , nor palsy , feigns himself Younger by scores of years , flatters his age , With confident belying it , hopes he may With charms , like son , have his youth re- stored : And with these thoughts so ...
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... live by venting oils and drugs . Pol . Was that the character he gave you o them ? Per . As I remember . Pol . Pity his ignorance , They are the only knowing men of Europe ! Great general scholars , excellent physicians , were A kind of ...
... live by venting oils and drugs . Pol . Was that the character he gave you o them ? Per . As I remember . Pol . Pity his ignorance , They are the only knowing men of Europe ! Great general scholars , excellent physicians , were A kind of ...
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