Original Plays, Volumen1Chatto & Windus, 1920 - 338 páginas |
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Página 318 - I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by commissariat, When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery; In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better major-genera/ has never sat a gee!
Página 291 - ... feel that they are dictated by a sincere regard for me. But to what new misery is she referring ? Time alone can tell ! Enter SIR JOSEPH. SIR JOSEPH. Captain Corcoran, I am much disappointed with your daughter. In fact, I don't think she will do.
Página 317 - I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral; I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical ; I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical; I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical; About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news — With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
Página 285 - Aye, even though Jove's armoury were launched at the head of the audacious mortal whose lips, unhallowed by relationship, dared to breathe that precious word, yet would I breathe it once, and then perchance be silent evermore. Josephine, in one brief breath I will concentrate the hopes, the doubts, the anxious fears of six weary months. Josephine, I am a British sailor, and I love you!
Página 286 - ALL [turning away, weeping]. Of life, alas ! his leave he's taking, For, ah ! his faithful heart is breaking. When he is gone we'll surely tell The maid that, as he died, he loved her well. [During chorus he has loaded pistol] RALPH. Be warned, my messmates all Who love in rank above you — For Josephine I fall ! [Puts pistol to his head.
Página 318 - I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact when I know what is meant by "Mamelon...
Página 306 - When Frederic was a little lad he proved so brave and daring, His father thought he'd 'prentice him to some career seafaring. I was, alas! his nurserymaid, and so it fell to my lot To take and bind the promising boy apprentice to a pilot — A life not bad for a hardy lad, though surely not a high lot, Though I'ma nurse, you might do worse than make your boy a pilot. I was a stupid nurserymaid, on breakers always steering, And I did not catch the word aright, through being hard of hearing...
Página 318 - I know our mythic history — King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's, I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox; I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conies I can floor peculiarities parabolous. I tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the "Frogs...
Página 319 - I don't think we quite understand one another. I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan, and you say 'orphan.' As I understand you, you are merely repeating the word ' orphan ' to show that you understand me.
Página 296 - RALPH. Proud officer, that haughty lip uncurl! Vain man, suppress that supercilious sneer, For I have dared to love your matchless girl, A fact well known to all my messmates here! CAPT. Oh, horror! RALPH and jos. jj,' > humble, poor, and lowly born.