 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1809 - 322 pages
...what do you think I open with ? Sneer. Faith, I can't guess. Puff. A clock. Hark ! [Clock strikes.] I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dan. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Isn't that odd, though at such an alarming... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 710 pages
...I open with? Sueir. Faith, 1 can't guess. Puff. A clock, ilark^! [Clock strtkes.]l ope\i withaclock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience : it also marks the time, which is luur o'clock in the morning, and saves a desrriptinii of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...readers have frequent occasion to lament that she did not follow the example of Mr Puffin the play, " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the moming, and saves a description of the riling sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...readers have frequent occasion to lament that she did not follow the example of Mr Puff in the play, " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c.of Scotland, with the Contemplative Angler,"... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1821 - 430 pages
...think I open with ? Sneer. Faith, I can't guess — Puff. A clock— Hark! — [Clock strikes.'] — I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dangle. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is 'nt that odd though... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c. of Scotland, with the Contemplative... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1825 - 78 pages
...with ? Sneer. I cannot guess — Puff. A clock— Sneer. A clock ! Puff". Hark ! — [Clock strikes'] I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...audience — it also marks the time, which is four in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Anglo-Indian literature - 1830 - 390 pages
...signifies Black Samuel.Nor are we sorry that they arrived at night, since, as Puff says in the Critic, ' it saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the Eastern hemisphere.' The host received his guests very civilly at the door, with his hands in his breeches' pockets. Not... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...you think I open with ? Sneer. Faith, I can't guess — Puff. A clock.— Hark!— [Clock strikes.} I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. DIIHQ. But pray, are the sentinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Isn't that odd though... | |
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 
