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Page 11
... poor gallant , when she tattle with this idle fellow ? -Hang - dog ! go solicits a maintenance for her discarded daugh- find out my rake - hell [ To SHIFT . ] , whilst I go to my brother Gripe , and inform him of my mis- fortune . Sca ...
... poor gallant , when she tattle with this idle fellow ? -Hang - dog ! go solicits a maintenance for her discarded daugh- find out my rake - hell [ To SHIFT . ] , whilst I go to my brother Gripe , and inform him of my mis- fortune . Sca ...
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... poor Scapin ! I want thy as- sistance . [ SCAPIN walks about surlily . poor Scapin ; now you've need of me . Sca . Ah , my poor Scapin ! Now I'm your Lean . No more ! I pardon thee all that thon hast done , and worse , if thou art ...
... poor Scapin ! I want thy as- sistance . [ SCAPIN walks about surlily . poor Scapin ; now you've need of me . Sca . Ah , my poor Scapin ! Now I'm your Lean . No more ! I pardon thee all that thon hast done , and worse , if thou art ...
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... poor Mr. Gripe , what wilt thou do ? [ Walks about distractedly . Gripe . What's that he says of me ? Sca . Is there nobody can tell me news of Mr. Gripe . Gripe . Who's there , Scapin ? Sca . How I run up and down to find him to no ...
... poor Mr. Gripe , what wilt thou do ? [ Walks about distractedly . Gripe . What's that he says of me ? Sca . Is there nobody can tell me news of Mr. Gripe . Gripe . Who's there , Scapin ? Sca . How I run up and down to find him to no ...
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... poor petty - larceny rascal , without the least genius ! that fellow , though he were to live these six months , will never come to the gallows with any credit ! Slippery Sam ; he goes off the next sessions ; for the villain hath the ...
... poor petty - larceny rascal , without the least genius ! that fellow , though he were to live these six months , will never come to the gallows with any credit ! Slippery Sam ; he goes off the next sessions ; for the villain hath the ...
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... Poor girl ! I'm in the utmost concerù about her . Peach . Look ye , wife , a handsome wench in our way of business , is as profitable as at the bar of a Temple coffee - house , who looks upon it as her livelihood to grant every liberty ...
... Poor girl ! I'm in the utmost concerù about her . Peach . Look ye , wife , a handsome wench in our way of business , is as profitable as at the bar of a Temple coffee - house , who looks upon it as her livelihood to grant every liberty ...
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Common terms and phrases
Æsop better Buck Cape Char Chrononhotonthologos Crab d'ye damned daugh daughter dear devil Dick Dotterel ecod Enter SIR Erit Exeunt Exit father fellow Flint fool fortune Fungus gentleman girl give happy hear heart hold honour hope Jenny King Kitty Lack-a-day Lady Pent Lady Rac look Lord Aim Lucy madam marriage marry master Mech Mechlin Miss Gran Miss Har Miss Lin mistress Neph never night Old Phil Old Wild Papillion passion Polly poor Pr'ythee pray pretty Puff Quid rascal SCENE servant Sir Archy Sir Cha Sir Geo Sir Gre Sir Gregory Sir Jac Sir John Sir Luke Sir Tho Sir Wil Sneak speak Spright suppose sure tell thee there's thing thou Thrifty what's Whit wife woman Young Wild Zounds
Popular passages
Page 2 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 1 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Page 2 - But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 25 - But money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is | not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. A rich rogue now-a-days is fit company for any gentleman ; and the world, my dear, hath not such ^ a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
Page 31 - But if I could raise a small Sum Would not twenty Guineas, think you, move him? Of all the Arguments in the way of Business, the Perquisite is the most prevailing. Your Father's Perquisites for the Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year.
Page 30 - A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests. To convince you of my sincerity, if we can find the ordinary, I shall have no scruples of making you my wife; and I know the consequence of having two at a time. Lucy. That you are only to be hanged, and so get rid of them both.
Page 30 - Married! very good. The wench gives it out only to vex thee, and to ruin me in thy good opinion. 'Tis true I go to the house, I chat with the girl, I kiss her, I say a thousand things to her (as all gentlemen do) that mean nothing, to divert...
Page 229 - When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent.
Page 158 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 625 - I say nothing — I take away from no man's merit— am hurt at no man's good fortune — I say nothing. — But this I will say — through all my knowledge of life, I have observed — that there is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.