A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces: 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 4

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - English drama
 

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Page 27 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 44 - SHARP: And so, madam, in the scuffle, my coat was torn to pieces as well as your reputation. MEL: And so you joined to make me infamous! SHARP: For heaven's sake, madam, what could I do? His proofs fell so thick upon me, as witness my head...
Page 48 - Have you betrayed me, villain? Did you not tell me this moment, she did not in the least suspect my circumstances? SHARP: No more she did, sir, till I told her. GAY: Very well; and was this your skill and dexterity?
Page 164 - Perez, a tailor by trade, of the grayhound make, lank ; and, if my memory fail me not, his right shoulder about the breadth of my hand higher than his left: but he was upright as an arrow, and, by all accounts, one of the finest workmen at a button-hole.
Page 111 - Lady R. Ah! you fond fool! — But I hate gaming.' it almost metamorphoses a woman into a fury. Do you know that I was frighted at myself several times to-night ? I had a huge oath at the very tip of my tongue. Sir C.
Page 44 - His proofs fell so thick upon me, as witness my head (showing his head plastered), that I would have given up all the maidenheads in the kingdom, rather than have my brains beat to a jelly. MEL: Very well! But I'll be revenged! And did not you tell your master this?
Page 135 - You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of...
Page 141 - Grumio, your master bid me find you out, and speed you to his country-house, to prepare for his reception ; and, if he finds not things as he expects 'em, according to the directions that he gave you, you know, he says, what follows. This message he delivered before his bride, even in her way to church, and shook his whip in token of his love.
Page 244 - ... in all this, it is the misery of an over-fond heart, to be always doubtful of its happiness. Heart. And if she marries thee, I fear that she'll be kept in a state of doubt as long as she lives. Enter LUCY. [Half aside. Lucy. Pray, gentlemen, what is the matter among you ? and which of you has affronted my mistress...
Page 230 - Her father, I have heard you say, recommended that particular care to you, when she had reached a certain age. Heart. He did so ; and I am the more desirous to obey him scrupulously...

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