British Theatre, Volume 24J. Bell, 1792 - English drama |
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... load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the labouring train , And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious Bard , without complaint , may share This bustling season's ...
... load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the labouring train , And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious Bard , without complaint , may share This bustling season's ...
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... load it with disgrace . Bel . Nor can it be disgraced . I mean to honour it , Fidelia you must comply . Fid . And repay generosity with ruin ! No , Mr. Belmont ; I can forego happiness , but never can con- sent to make another miserable ...
... load it with disgrace . Bel . Nor can it be disgraced . I mean to honour it , Fidelia you must comply . Fid . And repay generosity with ruin ! No , Mr. Belmont ; I can forego happiness , but never can con- sent to make another miserable ...
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... Load . Fire him , a snub - nosed son of a bitch . Le- vant me , but he got enough last night to purchase a principality amongst his countrymen , the High dutch- jans and Hussarians . Sir Geo . You had your share , Mr. Loader . Load ...
... Load . Fire him , a snub - nosed son of a bitch . Le- vant me , but he got enough last night to purchase a principality amongst his countrymen , the High dutch- jans and Hussarians . Sir Geo . You had your share , Mr. Loader . Load ...
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... Load . Capot me , but those lads abroad are pretty fellows , let them say what they will . Here , sir , they will vowel you from father to son , to the twentieth generation . They would as soon , now - a - days , pay a tradesman's bill ...
... Load . Capot me , but those lads abroad are pretty fellows , let them say what they will . Here , sir , they will vowel you from father to son , to the twentieth generation . They would as soon , now - a - days , pay a tradesman's bill ...
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John Bell. Load . Ay , ay , old Moll is at her last stake . Dick . She bade me say , she just stopt in her way to the tabernacle ; after the exhortation , she says , she'll call again . Sir Geo . Exhortation ! —Oh , I recollect . Well ...
John Bell. Load . Ay , ay , old Moll is at her last stake . Dick . She bade me say , she just stopt in her way to the tabernacle ; after the exhortation , she says , she'll call again . Sir Geo . Exhortation ! —Oh , I recollect . Well ...
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Page 39 - Cole. Oh, it was a wonderful work. There had I been tossing in a sea of sin, without rudder or compass. And had not the good gentleman piloted me into the harbour of grace, I must have struck against the rocks of reprobation, and have been quite swallowed up in the whirlpool of despair. He was the precious instrument of my spiritual sprinkling...
Page 5 - Distress'd alike, the statesman and the wit, When one a borough courts, and one the pit. The busy candidates for power and fame, Have hopes, and fears, and wishes, just th« same ; Disabled both to combat, or to fly, Must hear all taunts, and hear without reply.
Page 43 - Nebuchadnezzar Zebulon, in the Old Jewry, but it happened to be Saturday ; and they never touch on the Sabbath, you know. Sir Geo. Why, what the the devil can I do ? Tram.