The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. ArtificeJ. Knapton, 1760 |
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Seite 202 - But do you really like Matrimony Col. I believe I could with that Lady, Sir.
Seite 244 - Married to a Quaker ! thou art a fine fellow to be left guardian to an orphan truly there's a husband for a young lady ! Col.
Seite 233 - What, would you anatomize me? Sir P. Ay, ay, madam; he would dissect you. Trade. Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
Seite 230 - I promise you, mynheer. Trade. I will say all that ever I can think on to recommend you, mynheer ; and, if you please, I'll introduce you to the lady. Col.
Seite 202 - I am for marrying her ; for I hate the trouble of a guardian, especially among such wretches ; but resolve never to agree to the choice of any one of them, — and I fancy they'll be even with me, for they never came into any proposal of mine yet. Col.
Seite 196 - BETTY. Why, let it go. If the Colonel loves you, as he pretends, he'll marry you without a fortune, madam; and I assure you, a Colonel's lady is no despicable thing; a Colonel's post will maintain you like a gentlewoman, madam.
Seite 245 - I grant you, but you sign'd this contraft. [Skewing a Paper. Per. How durst you put this trick upon me, Mr. Freeman ? Didn't you tell me my uncle was dying ? Free.
Seite 205 - ... pamper themselves with the fatness thereof; but I will take care that none shall squander away thy father's estate ; thou shalt marry none such, Anne.
Seite 226 - Pox on your news. Free. Pox on the rascal that sent it me. Trade. Sent it you! Why Gabriel Skinflint has been at the minister's, and spoke with him, and he has assur'd him 'tis every syllable false ; he received no such express.
Seite 15 - No, no, I never bribe an old acquaintance. Perhaps I might let it sparkle in the eyes of a stranger a little, till we come to a right understanding. But then, like all other mortal things, it would return from whence it came.