Eighteenth-Century PlaysRicardo Quintana McGraw-Hill Companies,Incorporated, 1952 - 484 pages Edited, with an Introduction, by Ricardo Quintana |
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Page 462
... there's some spirit in this ! What signifies breaking some scores of solemn promises , half an hundred vows , under one's hand , with the marks of a dozen or two angels to witness ! -all that's of no consequence , you know . To be sure ...
... there's some spirit in this ! What signifies breaking some scores of solemn promises , half an hundred vows , under one's hand , with the marks of a dozen or two angels to witness ! -all that's of no consequence , you know . To be sure ...
Page 475
... there's murder and slaugh- ter- SIR ANTH . Murder ! DAV . Aye , please you , Sir Anthony , there's all kinds of murder , all sorts of slaughter to be seen in the fields : there's fighting going on , Sir - bloody sword - and - gun ...
... there's murder and slaugh- ter- SIR ANTH . Murder ! DAV . Aye , please you , Sir Anthony , there's all kinds of murder , all sorts of slaughter to be seen in the fields : there's fighting going on , Sir - bloody sword - and - gun ...
Page 476
... there's nothing like being used to a thing . Pray now , how would you receive the gentleman's shot ? ACRES . Odds files ! I've practised that . There , Sir Lucius- there ( puts himself in an attitude ) —a side - front , hey ? Odd ! I'll ...
... there's nothing like being used to a thing . Pray now , how would you receive the gentleman's shot ? ACRES . Odds files ! I've practised that . There , Sir Lucius- there ( puts himself in an attitude ) —a side - front , hey ? Odd ! I'll ...
Contents
CATO by Joseph Addison 1713 | 3 |
THE TRAGEDY OF JANE SHORE by Nicholas Rowe 1714 | 57 |
THE BEGGARS OPERA by John Gay 1728 179 | 239 |
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