Dramatic WorksCassell, 1909 - 427 páginas |
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Acres Alonzo Aman Antonio believe Berinthia Beverley brother Captain Absolute Charles Chas child Clara Cora Crab damned Dang Dangle dear devil Don Ferd Don Jer Duen Egad Elvira Exeunt Exit faith Fash father Faulk Faulkland fellow gentleman give hear heart Heaven honour hope Isaac Jack Julia Lady Sneer Lady Sneerwell Lady Teaz Lord Fop Lory Louisa Loveless Lucy Lydia ma'am madam Malaprop Maria married matter Miss Hoyd never Nurse O'Con Peruvian Pizarro pray Puff R. B. SHERIDAN Re-enter rogue Rolla Rosy Rowley SCENE SERVANT Sir Anth Sir Anthony Sir Fret Sir Luc Sir Lucius Sir Oliv Sir Pet Sir Peter Sir Tun Sir Tunbelly SOLDIERS soul speak sure Surf Teazle tell thee there's thing thou thought Tilb Townly wife word Zounds
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Página 28 - Observe me, Sir Anthony — I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I dont think so much learning becomes a young woman ; for instance — I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning...
Página 27 - You thought, miss ! I don't know any business you have to think at all. Thought does not become a young woman. But the point we would request of you is, that you will promise to forget this fellow — to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Página 215 - I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none, sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes, 60 And here's to the nymph with but one, sir.
Página 194 - For my part, I should think you would like to have your wife thought a woman of taste. SIR PET. Ay — there again — taste! Zounds! madam, you had no taste when you married me!
Página 221 - Here, Careless, you shall have no common bit of mahogany, here's the family tree for you, you rogue ! This shall be your hammer, and now you may knock down my ancestors with their own pedigree.
Página 187 - Nay, egad it's true: I back him at a rebus or a charade against the best rhymer in the kingdom. Has your ladyship heard the epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's feather catching fire? — Do, Benjamin, repeat it, or the charade you made last night extempore at Mrs.
Página 282 - Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts; the principal are, the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, or puff by implication. These all assume, as circumstances require, the various forms of Letter to the Editor, Occasional Anecdote, Impartial Critique, Observation from Correspondent, or Advertisement from the Party.
Página 87 - Well, now, that's mighty provoking ! But I hope, Mr Faulkland, as there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. Abs. O pray, Faulkland, fight to oblige Sir Lucius. Faulk. Nay, if Mr Acres is so bent on the matter Acres.
Página 213 - Well, then, Mr Trip, you have a pleasant sort of place here, I guess ? TRIP. Why, yes — here are three or four of us pass our time agreeably enough ; but then our wages are sometimes a little in arrear — and not very great either — but fifty pounds a year, and find our own bags and bouquets.
Página 217 - I take to be a prudent old fellow, who has got money to lend. I am blockhead enough to give fifty per cent, sooner than not have it! and you, I presume, are rogue enough to take a hundred if you can get it. Now, sir, you see we are acquainted at once, and may proceed to business without further ceremony.