The Man of Ten Thousand: A ComedyG. and J. Robinson, 1796 - 88 pages |
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Page 44 - Permiffion? Oh, yes— No! I'll be •wicked but not unprincipled: I won't lie! That is a paltry fcoundrel vice ; no foul in it. Look you, if that fum will not content you, tell me what will ? Mrs. En. Why, fir, you are fuch a handfome, charming, pleafant young gentleman, that — if you could fpare me another fuch—? Chev. To fettle accounts with your honour. Well, there. Mrs. En. Obferve, fir — it is. only a fhart converfation.
Page 10 - Nonr but fools condescend to live. Men exert their whole faculties to torture one another. Animals are the prey of animals. Flowers bloom to be plucked and perish. The very grass grows to be torn and eaten ; trees to be mangled, sawed, rooted up, and burned. The whole is a system of exquisite misery, and I have my full proportion ! — Oh ! this girl ! Why am I thus perturbed concerning her! She can but be wretched; and wretchedness...
Page 82 - Jhew how fitted you are to be great and good. Mor. To be a 1 dare not think ! Lady A. Indeed you are wrong. Had I not been guilty of a thoufand errors, you never would have had occafion for this felf reproach. Like cowards, we both have fhunned inquiry. Let us be more courageous ; let us affectionately communicate our mutual...
Page 44 - Prodigious virtue ! Come, come ! Lennox is cunning forty ; I am foolifh one and twenty. He is too old to be a lavifh paymafter. Mrs. En. Ah, fir, that is your mikake! He is too young ! He will pay better as be grows older.
Page 61 - Come — come — without further enquiry, give me Darnley's note; the one Clara brought; the comical dog there, as you call her, is in love with Darnley, and wants to hold the •bill as a rod over his head : I fhall only afk her one hundred pounds premium for it.
Page 8 - Then you stint the servants in meat and drink, only to dress them with bags and nosegays — and on.ce when you gave one hundred and fifty pounds for a curricle, didn't you want me to drive two miles over impassable roads, only to avoid paying a turnpike?— another time when you and your favourite Sir Frederick Lady Pro. There he always strikes me dumb—- Oh ! if I could recriminate ! (aside] Well, sir : what of Sir Frederick ? I'm sure, there's no impropriety .in 'our intimacy : we are never tete...
Page 25 - I am forry to have given you pain, and to have excited your tears. But I muft earneftly defire you will commit no more fuch miftakes. They are wrong, in themfelves ; and every way fatal to my peace. Mrs. Sar. (Catching and...
Page 3 - Though there are folks, who ought to adore the very ground fhe treads upon, that ufe her like a Turk! Mor. How now ? Mrs. Sar. I name no names. Mor. Who fent for you here, Miftrefs? Mrs. Sar. My lady font me here, fir.
Page 28 - Why, with our young men of quality, quizzing is a fubftitute for wit, my dear ; fo one man challeng'd me to play on the violin, and when I rofe to move my elbows, another •whip'd the chair from under me ; a fecond put hot coals into my pocket, fo when I felt for my hankerchief, I burnt my fingers ; a third tried to cut off my tail, but that...
Page 12 - A pretty fashion, truly ! I would tell him I was afraid of ghosts; and so I married, because I could not, nor I would not, lie alone. So let him remember that. Lady A. Why were you so long in bringing the message back ? Mrs.