Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16George Daniel, John Cumberland J. Cumberland, 1827 - English drama |
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... mind letting you have the run of the key for an hour or two , if I go with you , and you can shew good cause . Thom . I can , I can . These French drawings which I sent you to purchase in Rathbone - place , that I might re- fresh my ...
... mind letting you have the run of the key for an hour or two , if I go with you , and you can shew good cause . Thom . I can , I can . These French drawings which I sent you to purchase in Rathbone - place , that I might re- fresh my ...
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... mind granting you a rule of court , as it's to transact your private affairs ; you may go . Thom . Come along , then . Heigho ! [ Exeunt , R. SCENE II . - Exterior of Monsieur Morbleu's House and Shop in the Seven Dials . Door in flat ...
... mind granting you a rule of court , as it's to transact your private affairs ; you may go . Thom . Come along , then . Heigho ! [ Exeunt , R. SCENE II . - Exterior of Monsieur Morbleu's House and Shop in the Seven Dials . Door in flat ...
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... Mind your rush - light don't go out . Ha , ha , ha ! Was there ever seen so curious an animal ? Let us see what species he belongs to . Lend me your lanthorn , Charley . [ Takes Nap's lanthorn , and reads the inscription over Morbleu's ...
... Mind your rush - light don't go out . Ha , ha , ha ! Was there ever seen so curious an animal ? Let us see what species he belongs to . Lend me your lanthorn , Charley . [ Takes Nap's lanthorn , and reads the inscription over Morbleu's ...
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... mind de pomatum run avay dis hot veader ; but dat dam Monsieur Tonson run avay , too . Nap . Eh ! Mounseer Townsend ! who's he ? Mor . Oh ! by gar ! me no know ; me no vant to know . He comes here seven , two , tree time , and pull me ...
... mind de pomatum run avay dis hot veader ; but dat dam Monsieur Tonson run avay , too . Nap . Eh ! Mounseer Townsend ! who's he ? Mor . Oh ! by gar ! me no know ; me no vant to know . He comes here seven , two , tree time , and pull me ...
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... mind easy ; we'll rummage her out . Thom . Knock at the door at once and never fear but you'll be properly rewarded . Come , Rusty , let us look Stand aside , stand aside ! on . [ Rusty and Thompson stand aside R. Trap . Now , Master ...
... mind easy ; we'll rummage her out . Thom . Knock at the door at once and never fear but you'll be properly rewarded . Come , Rusty , let us look Stand aside , stand aside ! on . [ Rusty and Thompson stand aside R. Trap . Now , Master ...
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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...
Page 5 - The golden hair that Galla wears Is hers. Who would have thought it? She swears 'tis hers and true she swears, For I know where she bought it.