The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 páginas |
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... scenes of Congreve , and containing the most complete and exquisitely wrought - up bit of effect in the whole circle of comedy - the screen scene . Yet none of the characters , hardly even Sir Peter , can be said to be agreeable ...
... scenes of Congreve , and containing the most complete and exquisitely wrought - up bit of effect in the whole circle of comedy - the screen scene . Yet none of the characters , hardly even Sir Peter , can be said to be agreeable ...
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... scene , Shall stab herself - or poison Mrs. Green.- Such dire encroachments to prevent in time , Demands the critic's voice - the poet's rhyme . Can our light scenes add strength to holy laws ! Such puny patronage but hurts the cause ...
... scene , Shall stab herself - or poison Mrs. Green.- Such dire encroachments to prevent in time , Demands the critic's voice - the poet's rhyme . Can our light scenes add strength to holy laws ! Such puny patronage but hurts the cause ...
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... SCENE I - Captain ABSOLUTE's Lodgings . Captain ABSOLUTE and FAG . Fag . Sir , while I was there sir Anthony came in : I told him , you had sent me to inquire after his health , and to know if he was at leisure to see you . Abs . And ...
... SCENE I - Captain ABSOLUTE's Lodgings . Captain ABSOLUTE and FAG . Fag . Sir , while I was there sir Anthony came in : I told him , you had sent me to inquire after his health , and to know if he was at leisure to see you . Abs . And ...
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... SCENE II . - The North Parade . Enter Lucy . Lucy . So I shall have another rival to add to my mistress's list - Captain Absolute . However , I shall not enter his name till my purse has received notice in form . Poor Acres is dismissed ...
... SCENE II . - The North Parade . Enter Lucy . Lucy . So I shall have another rival to add to my mistress's list - Captain Absolute . However , I shall not enter his name till my purse has received notice in form . Poor Acres is dismissed ...
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... SCENE I. - The North Parade . Enter Captain ABSOLUTE . Abs . ' Tis just as Fag told me , indeed . - Whim- sical enough , faith ! My father wants to force me to marry the very girl I am plotting to run away with ! -He must not know of my ...
... SCENE I. - The North Parade . Enter Captain ABSOLUTE . Abs . ' Tis just as Fag told me , indeed . - Whim- sical enough , faith ! My father wants to force me to marry the very girl I am plotting to run away with ! -He must not know of my ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acres Alonzo Aman believe BUTLER captain Chas Clara Cora COUNTESS Dang dear devil Don Ferd Don Jer dost doth DUCHESS Duen Duke Egad Egra Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith Fash father Faulk Faulkland Faust feel fellow give GORDON hand hath hear heart Heaven honour hope ILLO Isaac ISOLANI Lady Sneer Lady Teaz look Lord Fop Lory Louisa ma'am madam Malaprop Marg Meph Mephistopheles Miss Hoyd ne'er NEUBRUNN never O'Con O'Daub o'er OCTAVIO Piccolomini Pizarro pray Puff QUESTENBERG Re-enter Rolla Rosy SCENE School for Scandal Servant Sir Anth sir Anthony Sir Fret Sir Luc sir Lucius Sir Oliv Sir Pet sir Peter Sir Tun sir Tunbelly soldier soul speak spirit sure Surf Teazle tell TERTSKY thee THEKLA there's thine thing thought WALLENSTEIN wish word Zounds
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Página 56 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 20 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 59 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Página 90 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...
Página 10 - ... my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. I have resolved, therefore, to fix you at once in a noble independence.
Página 13 - tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice...
Página 85 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
Página 15 - It is but too true, indeed, ma'am; — yet I fear our ladies should share the blame — they think our admiration of beauty so great, that knowledge in them would be superfluous. Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom. — Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
Página 82 - ... the credit of a prudent lady of her stamp as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation that is always ailing, yet will outlive the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. Sir Benj.
Página 80 - Then, at once to unravel this mystery, I must inform you that love has no share whatever in the intercourse between Mr. Surface and me.