Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ...John Bell, near Exeter Exchange, in the Strand, and C. Etherington, at York, 1776 |
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Seite 26 - I'm sorry my lord is not here, to take his share of the compliment — But he'll wonder what's become of us. [Exit. Manly. It must be so — She sees I love her — yet with what unoffending decency she avoids an explanation ? How amiable is every hour of her conduct ! What a vile opinion have I had of the whole sex for these ten years past, which this sensible creature has recovered in less than one ! Such a companion, sure, might compensate all the irksome disappointment, that folly and falsehood...
Seite 35 - In short then, I have a friend in a corner, that has let me a little into what's what, at Westminster — that's one thing.
Seite 26 - LADY G. Come, Mr. Manly— —I know you don't forgive me now. MAN. I don't know whether I ought to forgive your thinking so, madam. Where do ypu imagine I could pass my time so agreeably ? LADY G.
Seite 13 - I'm sure. No, no, girl, there are certain ingredients to be mingled with matrimony, without which I may as well change for the worse as the better. When the woman has fortune enough to make the man happy, if he has either honour or good manners, he'll make her easy. Love makes but a slovenly figure in a house, where poverty keeps the doer.
Seite 56 - Oh, my dear, you are the most mistaken in the world ! married people have things to talk of, child, that never enter into the imagination of others. — Why, here's my lord and I, now, we have not been married above two short years, you know, and we have...
Seite 20 - till his money is gone; or, at least, 'till the session is over ? MAN. If my intelligence is right, my lord, he won't sit long enough to give his vote for a turnpike.
Seite 29 - He is the devil, I think. Per. Oh, Mr Sackbut, why do you name the devil, when, perhaps, he may be at your elbow ? Sack.
Seite 53 - Why, at best, women that lose their mo,ney, and men that win it ; or, perhaps, men that are voluntary bubbles at one game, in hopes a lady will give them fair play at another.
Seite 21 - G. I beg, of all things, we may have him : I am in love with nature, let her dress be never so homely. Man. Then, desire him to come hither, James. [Exit James. Lady G. Pray what may be Mr. Moody's post ? Man. Oh! \\lsmaitrcd' hotel, his butler, his bailiff, his hind, his huntsman, and sometimes his companion.
Seite 71 - Man. I hope, ladies, the town air continues to agree with you ? Jenny. Oh, perfectly well, sir ! We have been abroad in our new coach all day long and we have bought an ocean of fine things. And tomorrow we go to the masquerade; and on Friday to the play ; and on Saturday to the opera ; and on Sunday we are to be at the what-d'ye-call-it assembly, and see the ladies play at quadrille, and piquet...