 I please, and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance, or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations; come to dinner...  The modern British drama - Page 416by British drama - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 lehte
...to my own Taste; to have no Obligation upon me to converse with Wits that I don't like, because they are your Acquaintance; or to be intimate with Fools,...I please, dine in my Dressing-Room when I'm out of Humor, without giving a Reason. To have my Closet inviolate; to be sole Empress of my Tea-Table, which... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 lehte
...to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance; or to be intimate with fools,...relations. Come to dinner when I please, dine in my dressing room when I'm out of humor, without giving a reason. To have my closest inviolate; to be sole... | |
 | Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - 1992 - 164 lehte
...to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance: or to be intimate with fools,...out of humour, without giving a reason. To have my closet4 inviolate; to be sole empress of my tea-table, which you must never presume to approach without... | |
 | William Congreve - 1965 - 162 lehte
...obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance; or to be 195 intimate with fools, because they may be your relations. Come to dinner when I please; dine in my dressing room when I'm out of humor, without giving a reason. To have my closet inviolate; to be sole... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 lehte
...to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance; or to be intimate with fools,...leave. And lastly wherever I am, you shall always knock at the door before you come in. These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 lehte
...write and receive Letters, without Interrogatories or wry Faces on your part; to wear what I please... .To have my Closet inviolate; to be sole Empress of...leave. And lastly wherever I am, you shall always knock at the Door before you come in.These Articles subscrib'd, if I continue to endure you a little... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 lehte
...upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance; or to be intimare with fools, because they may be your relations. Come...out of humour, without giving a reason. To have my closer inviolare; to be sole empress of my rea-table, which you must never presume to approach without... | |
 | John Mcwhorter - 2000 - 306 lehte
...that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance; or to be intimate with fool, because they are your relations. Come to dinner when I please; dine...reason. To have my closet inviolate; to be sole empress on my tea-table, which you must never presume to approach without asking. And lastly, wherever I am,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 lehte
...Congreve's Millamant require that she be able to "[c]ome to Dinner when I please, dine in my dressing room when I'm out of humour without giving a reason. To...never presume to approach without first asking leave." Toward FIG. 5.8. Robert Smythson, design for a closet or business room, c. 1600. Above, elevation of... | |
 | Tita Chico - 2005 - 316 lehte
...Millamant and Mirabell in The Way of the Work) (1700). Millamant demands, among many things, the right to "dine in my Dressing-room when I'm out of Humour,...without giving a Reason. To have my Closet inviolate. . . . And lastly, whereever I am, you shall always knock at the Door before you come in."126 If women's... | |
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