Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16George Daniel, John Cumberland J. Cumberland, 1827 - English drama |
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... hope all absentees may have as much cause to repent it is as you have . Thom . Hum ! then I should never have married my wife , the chief agent of all my troubles- Rus . As most wives are : mine was ! But she died in her confinement ...
... hope all absentees may have as much cause to repent it is as you have . Thom . Hum ! then I should never have married my wife , the chief agent of all my troubles- Rus . As most wives are : mine was ! But she died in her confinement ...
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... hope there hasn't been no rogues breaking in and running away with the pomatum , has there ? Mor . Vorse dau dat , Monsieur Vash . I no mind de pomatum run avay dis hot veader ; but dat dam Monsieur Tonson run avay , too . Nap . Eh ...
... hope there hasn't been no rogues breaking in and running away with the pomatum , has there ? Mor . Vorse dau dat , Monsieur Vash . I no mind de pomatum run avay dis hot veader ; but dat dam Monsieur Tonson run avay , too . Nap . Eh ...
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... hope dat is no Monsieur Tonson dat come last night , come again . I shall no open de door till I know . Qui va là ? vat is de knock dere ? Mor . [ Without . ] Ouvrez la porte - C'est moi , madame . Belle . Monsieur himself . It all ...
... hope dat is no Monsieur Tonson dat come last night , come again . I shall no open de door till I know . Qui va là ? vat is de knock dere ? Mor . [ Without . ] Ouvrez la porte - C'est moi , madame . Belle . Monsieur himself . It all ...
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... hope he vill no come again to - night . Belle . [ L. ] Sans doute , it vas some pauvre maniac . You see his keeper took him avay par violence ! Mor . Keeper or , no keeper , I vish he vould keep avay from me , mon Dieu ! But you are ...
... hope he vill no come again to - night . Belle . [ L. ] Sans doute , it vas some pauvre maniac . You see his keeper took him avay par violence ! Mor . Keeper or , no keeper , I vish he vould keep avay from me , mon Dieu ! But you are ...
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... , though unknown , what hope have I from thee ? Dear nameless image of a mother's beauty ! [ Looking at a miniature which she takes from her bosom . ] Brief records of a father's love ! SCENE III . ] 33 MONSIEUR TONSON .
... , though unknown , what hope have I from thee ? Dear nameless image of a mother's beauty ! [ Looking at a miniature which she takes from her bosom . ] Brief records of a father's love ! SCENE III . ] 33 MONSIEUR TONSON .
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Page 7 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 8 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 10 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Page 6 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Page 20 - Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for thy. name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Page 7 - Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 3 - Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
Page 5 - Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave; Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave: Is he a Churchman?
Page 5 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart...
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