Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 18George Daniel, John Cumberland J. Cumberland, 1828 - English drama |
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... ance was every way worthy of an enamoured lass who could be generous and romantic enough to hazard an expedient so repugnant to female propriety , to make two lovers happy . DG . MEMOIR OF MISS FOOTE . MISS FOOTE was born in REMARKS .
... ance was every way worthy of an enamoured lass who could be generous and romantic enough to hazard an expedient so repugnant to female propriety , to make two lovers happy . DG . MEMOIR OF MISS FOOTE . MISS FOOTE was born in REMARKS .
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... happy , and you shall have her by my authority . Cha . Ah , sir , there is a girl- DUET - M'GILPIN and CHARLEY . M'Gil . R. C. Thy secrets to thy kind master tell . Cha . L. C. M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha ...
... happy , and you shall have her by my authority . Cha . Ah , sir , there is a girl- DUET - M'GILPIN and CHARLEY . M'Gil . R. C. Thy secrets to thy kind master tell . Cha . L. C. M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha . M'Gil . Cha ...
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... happy with poor Jenny ? San . My dear Jenny ! — AIR . SANDY . At dawn I rose with jocund glee , For joyful was the day , That could this blessing give to me ; Now joy is fled away - Jenny ! No flocks , nor herds , nor stores of gold с 3 ...
... happy with poor Jenny ? San . My dear Jenny ! — AIR . SANDY . At dawn I rose with jocund glee , For joyful was the day , That could this blessing give to me ; Now joy is fled away - Jenny ! No flocks , nor herds , nor stores of gold с 3 ...
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... happy . She . So , I'm a conjurer ! These are comical conju- rations - the tenant is the landlord - the poor orphan is the lady of the land - the captain is no soldier - the sol- dier is a woman - the ' prentice is a master - the master ...
... happy . She . So , I'm a conjurer ! These are comical conju- rations - the tenant is the landlord - the poor orphan is the lady of the land - the captain is no soldier - the sol- dier is a woman - the ' prentice is a master - the master ...
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... happy messenger from thence . Duke . Know you Antonio , your countryman Val . Ay , my good lord , I know the gentleman To be of worth , and worthy estimation , And not without desert so well reputed . Duke . Hath he not a son ? Val . He ...
... happy messenger from thence . Duke . Know you Antonio , your countryman Val . Ay , my good lord , I know the gentleman To be of worth , and worthy estimation , And not without desert so well reputed . Duke . Hath he not a son ? Val . He ...
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Benin Bertram Briefwit captain Charley Clown Count Covent Garden Crosses CUMBERLAND TERRACE Dame dear door dress Duke Dumain Edmund Egerton Eglamour Enter Ernestine Exeunt Exit father fellow gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona girl give Greville Grumio hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Helena Highland Reel honour JOHN CUMBERLAND Julia Kate Katharine King lady Launce Lefeu letter look lord M'Gil M'Gilpin Madame Gertrude marriage marry master Milan mistress Moggy Narbon nestine never Nicholas Old F Paroles Petruchio poor pray ring Rosambert Rose Rostrum Rousillon Sally SCENE servant Shakspeare Shelty Silvia Sir Proteus speak sweet tell THEATRES ROYAL thee there's thing thou art Thurio Tourville Valentine wife Zounds
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Page 44 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.
Page 10 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 10 - I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing ; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare ; I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua.
Page 49 - Then I am paid ; And once again I do receive thee honest : — Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth...
Page 21 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 30 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
Page 22 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace ; Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Page 35 - I have no other but a woman's reason ; I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 50 - I found you wond'rous kind. There is your ring, And, look you, here's your letter ; This it says, When from my finger you can get this ring, And are by me with child, &c.