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... Maria's charms- Wild . Maria's charms ! and so now you would fain grow wanton in her praise , and have me listen to your raptures about my own sister ? Ha , ha ! poor Beaufort ! Is my sister at home , Will ? with any of her sex . Beau ...
... Maria's charms- Wild . Maria's charms ! and so now you would fain grow wanton in her praise , and have me listen to your raptures about my own sister ? Ha , ha ! poor Beaufort ! Is my sister at home , Will ? with any of her sex . Beau ...
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... MARIA , singing . The same giddy girl ! —- Sister ! —come , my dear Maria . Have done , brother ; let me have my own way - I will go through my song . Wild . I have not seen you this age ; ask me how I do . Maria . I won't ask you how ...
... MARIA , singing . The same giddy girl ! —- Sister ! —come , my dear Maria . Have done , brother ; let me have my own way - I will go through my song . Wild . I have not seen you this age ; ask me how I do . Maria . I won't ask you how ...
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... Maria . Lord of Heaven , what do you want ? Wild . Come , come ; truce with your frolics , Miss Hoyden , and behave like a sensible girl ; we have serious business with you . Maria . Have you ? well , come , I will be sen- sible - there ...
... Maria . Lord of Heaven , what do you want ? Wild . Come , come ; truce with your frolics , Miss Hoyden , and behave like a sensible girl ; we have serious business with you . Maria . Have you ? well , come , I will be sen- sible - there ...
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... Maria , don't talk of liking him . Maria . Oh ! now you are beginning again . [ Sings , Voi Amanti , & c . and exit . Beau . ' Sdeath . Wilding , I shall never be your brother - in - law at this rate ! Wild . Psha , follow me : don't be ...
... Maria , don't talk of liking him . Maria . Oh ! now you are beginning again . [ Sings , Voi Amanti , & c . and exit . Beau . ' Sdeath . Wilding , I shall never be your brother - in - law at this rate ! Wild . Psha , follow me : don't be ...
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... the stocks , which are higher now than when I bought in , this will be no bad morning's work : and then in the evening I shall be in the rarest spirits for Maria . [ Curtsies aukwardly . ] I long to 473 [ MURPHY . THE CITIZEN .
... the stocks , which are higher now than when I bought in , this will be no bad morning's work : and then in the evening I shall be in the rarest spirits for Maria . [ Curtsies aukwardly . ] I long to 473 [ MURPHY . THE CITIZEN .
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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.