The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 páginas |
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... his writing think for thing ; but his aristocratic schoolfellows surpassed him in vulgarity of mind , for they taunted him with being the son of a player . On leaving school , he did not go to the BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCH •
... his writing think for thing ; but his aristocratic schoolfellows surpassed him in vulgarity of mind , for they taunted him with being the son of a player . On leaving school , he did not go to the BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCH •
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... mind ; namely , the extreme and constant care with which they were elaborated , and brought to their final state of terseness and polish . He kept memorandums of his wit , for use ; pickled and potted up the sentences in which it was ...
... mind ; namely , the extreme and constant care with which they were elaborated , and brought to their final state of terseness and polish . He kept memorandums of his wit , for use ; pickled and potted up the sentences in which it was ...
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... mind to have given Bardolph and Shallow as much wit as Prince Hal , and to have made Dogberry and Verges retort on each other in sparkling epigrams . But he knew , to use his own admirable language , that such indis- criminate ...
... mind to have given Bardolph and Shallow as much wit as Prince Hal , and to have made Dogberry and Verges retort on each other in sparkling epigrams . But he knew , to use his own admirable language , that such indis- criminate ...
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... mind to gi't the slip , and whip ! we were all off at an hour's warning . Fag . Ay , ay , hasty in everything , or it would not be sir Anthony Absolute ! Thos . But tell us , Mr. Fag , how does young master ? Odd , sir Anthony will ...
... mind to gi't the slip , and whip ! we were all off at an hour's warning . Fag . Ay , ay , hasty in everything , or it would not be sir Anthony Absolute ! Thos . But tell us , Mr. Fag , how does young master ? Odd , sir Anthony will ...
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... mind - for in our village now , thoff Jack Gauge the exciseman has ta'en to his carrots , there's little Dick the farrier swears he'll never forsake his bob , though all the college should appear with their own heads ! Fag . Indeed ...
... mind - for in our village now , thoff Jack Gauge the exciseman has ta'en to his carrots , there's little Dick the farrier swears he'll never forsake his bob , though all the college should appear with their own heads ! Fag . Indeed ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acres Alonzo Aman believe BUTLER captain Chas Clara Cora COUNTESS Dang dear devil Don Ferd Don Jer dost doth DUCHESS Duen Duke Egad Egra Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith Fash father Faulk Faulkland Faust feel fellow give GORDON hand hath hear heart Heaven honour hope ILLO Isaac ISOLANI Lady Sneer Lady Teaz look Lord Fop Lory Louisa ma'am madam Malaprop Marg Meph Mephistopheles Miss Hoyd ne'er NEUBRUNN never O'Con O'Daub o'er OCTAVIO Piccolomini Pizarro pray Puff QUESTENBERG Re-enter Rolla Rosy SCENE School for Scandal Servant Sir Anth sir Anthony Sir Fret Sir Luc sir Lucius Sir Oliv Sir Pet sir Peter Sir Tun sir Tunbelly soldier soul speak spirit sure Surf Teazle tell TERTSKY thee THEKLA there's thine thing thought WALLENSTEIN wish word Zounds
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Página 56 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 20 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 59 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Página 90 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...
Página 10 - ... my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. I have resolved, therefore, to fix you at once in a noble independence.
Página 13 - tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice...
Página 85 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
Página 15 - It is but too true, indeed, ma'am; — yet I fear our ladies should share the blame — they think our admiration of beauty so great, that knowledge in them would be superfluous. Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom. — Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
Página 82 - ... the credit of a prudent lady of her stamp as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation that is always ailing, yet will outlive the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. Sir Benj.
Página 80 - Then, at once to unravel this mystery, I must inform you that love has no share whatever in the intercourse between Mr. Surface and me.