A Collection of Farces and Other After-pieces, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden and Hay-Market: Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book, Volume 3Mrs. Inchbald Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809 - English drama |
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... Sir Edw . [ Within . ] Smart , get the guns ready . Is my new keeper come from the Lodge ? Smart . No , Sir Edward . [ PEGGY crosses the Stage with a Milk - jug . ] Servant , Miss Peggy . [ She sneers . ] Ugh ! A kiss from my master has ...
... Sir Edw . [ Within . ] Smart , get the guns ready . Is my new keeper come from the Lodge ? Smart . No , Sir Edward . [ PEGGY crosses the Stage with a Milk - jug . ] Servant , Miss Peggy . [ She sneers . ] Ugh ! A kiss from my master has ...
Page 64
... Sir Edward stir- ring ? Smart . Yes - just asked for you . Mind your hits to - day , Mr Henry : you shot for your place , and won it ; but you'd better not outshoot Sir Edward . Henry . Oh , ho ! --- vain of his abilities that way , ha ...
... Sir Edward stir- ring ? Smart . Yes - just asked for you . Mind your hits to - day , Mr Henry : you shot for your place , and won it ; but you'd better not outshoot Sir Edward . Henry . Oh , ho ! --- vain of his abilities that way , ha ...
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... Sir EDWARD with Gun , & c . R. H. Sir Edw . Take out the greyhounds and give them a course ; and let the groom exercise the curricle- horses . CRACK slips from behind the Public - house . Crack . Sir , I'll exercise the curricle and ...
... Sir EDWARD with Gun , & c . R. H. Sir Edw . Take out the greyhounds and give them a course ; and let the groom exercise the curricle- horses . CRACK slips from behind the Public - house . Crack . Sir , I'll exercise the curricle and ...
Page 72
... Sir Edw . And pray , who are you that are so very officious ? Crack . If you wish to make me your bosom friend , don't puzzle me : but , sir , I believe I am the over- seer of the parish ; for I visit all the ale - houses every sabbath ...
... Sir Edw . And pray , who are you that are so very officious ? Crack . If you wish to make me your bosom friend , don't puzzle me : but , sir , I believe I am the over- seer of the parish ; for I visit all the ale - houses every sabbath ...
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... Sir Edw . What's that familiar nod for ? Crack . It's a way I have when I give consent . Sir Edw . Consent ! to what ? Crack . That you may give me what you please above half - a - crown .- [ They laugh . - A pause . ] Oh ! I'm a man of ...
... Sir Edw . What's that familiar nod for ? Crack . It's a way I have when I give consent . Sir Edw . Consent ! to what ? Crack . That you may give me what you please above half - a - crown .- [ They laugh . - A pause . ] Oh ! I'm a man of ...
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Page 223 - Then for the performance. Mr. Dodd was astonishingly great in the character of Sir Harry. That universal and judicious actor, Mr. Palmer, perhaps never appeared to more advantage than in the Colonel ; but it is not in the power of language to do justice to Mr. King; indeed he more than merited those repeated bursts of applause which he drew from a most brilliant and judicious audience. As to the scenery, the miraculous powers of Mr.
Page 249 - Puff. Why, by that shake of the head, he gave you to understand that even though they had more justice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures — yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country would at last fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the Spanish monarchy.
Page 211 - Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Page 223 - Lud, sir, you are very ignorant, I am afraid ! — Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts ; the principal are, the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, or puff by implication. These all assume, as circumstances require, the various forms of letter to the editor, occasional anecdote, impartial critique, observation from correspondent, or advertisement from the party.
Page 213 - Or, if I made any objection, I am sure it was to nothing in the piece; but that I was afraid it was on the whole, a little too long.
Page 222 - Sneer. Oh, I understand you. Puff. And in truth I deserved what I got ; for I suppose never man went through such a series of calamities in the same space, of time ! — Sir, I was five times made a bankrupt, and reduced from a state of affluence by a train of unavoidable misfortunes ! then, sir, though...
Page 211 - Why, sir, for aught I know, he might take out some of the best things in my tragedy, and put them into his own comedy.
Page 213 - Oh, if Mr. Dangle read it, that's quite another affair !— But I assure you, Mrs. Dangle, the first evening you can spare me three hours and a half...
Page 213 - I'll undertake to read you the whole, from beginning to end, with the prologue and epilogue, and allow time for the music between the acts.
Page 221 - But pray, Mr. Puff, what first put you on exercising your talents in this way? Puff. Egad, sir, sheer necessity — the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention : you must know, Mr.