 ... gentlemen, they can fill them to the life. Think only what a violence it must be to the nerves of an humble unpretending actor, to be obliged to play the gallant gay seducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart...  The British Essayists: The Looker-on - Page 120by Alexander Chalmers - 1803Full view - About this book
 | 1788 - 654 pages
...gallant gay feducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no otlier objeft at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife and children, and participate with them in the honeft earnings of his vocation : can fuch a man compete with the Lothario of high life ? * And now... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1788 - 346 pages
...gay feducer and be the cuckold* maker of the comedy, when he has no other ob^ ject at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife and children and parti-, cipate with them in the honeft earnings of his vocation; can fuch a man compete with the Lo«... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1791 - 308 pages
...gallant gay feducer and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife and children and participate with ihern in the honeft earnings of his vocation; can fuch a man compete with the Lothario of high life... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1780 - 550 pages
...children, and participate with them ¡n the honeft earnings of his rocatign : can fuch a man compete compete with the Lothario of high life ? And now I mention the cares of я family, I ftrike upon another difsdvantage, which the public performer is fubjcft to, and the private... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 278 pages
...gallant gay seducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife...private exempt from : the Andromache of the stage may have an infant Hector at home, whom she more tenderly feels for than the Hector of the scene; he may... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 820 pages
...cuckoldmaker of the comedy, when he has 110 other objedt at heart, but to go quietly home, when th« p'ay is over, to his wife and children, and participate with them in ths honcu eariiings of his vocation ; can fuch a man compel* with, the Lothario of higb-lite. " And,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...gallant gay seducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over,, to his wife...private exempt from : the Andromache of the stage may have an infant Hector at home, whom she more tenderly feels for than the Hector of the scene; he may... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 428 pages
...gallant gay seducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife...private exempt from : the Andromache of the stage may have an infant Hector at home, whom she more tenderly feels for than the Hector of the scene; he may... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 416 pages
...gallant gay seducer, and be the cockold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife...private exempt from: the Andromache of the stage may have an infant Hector at home, whom she more tenderly feels for than the Hector of the scene; he may... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 380 pages
...gallant gay seducer, and be the cuckold-maker of the comedy, when he has no other object at heart but to go quietly home, when the play is over, to his wife...private exempt from : the Andromache of the stage may have an infant Hector at home, whom she more tenderly feels for than the Hector of the scene ; he may... | |
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