The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1Samuel Bagster, 1902 |
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... Lucy • Mr. Shuter . • · Mr. Woodward . Mr. Lewis . · Mr. Quick . Mr. Lee . • Mr. Lee Lewes . Mr. Dunstal . Mr. Fearon . Mrs. Green . Miss Barsanti . Mrs. Bulkley . • Mrs. Lessingham . Maid , Boy , Servants , & c . SCENE - Bath . TIME OF ...
... Lucy • Mr. Shuter . • · Mr. Woodward . Mr. Lewis . · Mr. Quick . Mr. Lee . • Mr. Lee Lewes . Mr. Dunstal . Mr. Fearon . Mrs. Green . Miss Barsanti . Mrs. Bulkley . • Mrs. Lessingham . Maid , Boy , Servants , & c . SCENE - Bath . TIME OF ...
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... LUCY , as just returned from a message . Lucy . Indeed , ma'am , I traversed half the town in search of it : I don't believe there's a circulating library in Bath I ha'n't been at . Lyd . And could not you get The Reward of Con- stancy ?
... LUCY , as just returned from a message . Lucy . Indeed , ma'am , I traversed half the town in search of it : I don't believe there's a circulating library in Bath I ha'n't been at . Lyd . And could not you get The Reward of Con- stancy ?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan George Gabriel Sigmond. Lucy . Ma'am , as ill luck would have it , Mr. Bull said Miss Sukey Saunter had just fetched it away . Lyd . Heigh - ho ! Did you inquire for The Delicate Distress ? Lucy . Or , The ...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan George Gabriel Sigmond. Lucy . Ma'am , as ill luck would have it , Mr. Bull said Miss Sukey Saunter had just fetched it away . Lyd . Heigh - ho ! Did you inquire for The Delicate Distress ? Lucy . Or , The ...
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... LUCY in a hurry . Lucy . O ma'am , here is Sir Anthony Absolute just come home with your aunt . Lyd . They'll not come here . Lucy , do you watch . [ Exit LUCY . Jul . Yet I must go . Sir Anthony does not know I am here , and if we meet ...
... LUCY in a hurry . Lucy . O ma'am , here is Sir Anthony Absolute just come home with your aunt . Lyd . They'll not come here . Lucy , do you watch . [ Exit LUCY . Jul . Yet I must go . Sir Anthony does not know I am here , and if we meet ...
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... Lucy . Oh , burn it , ma'am ! the hairdresser has torn away as far as Proper Pride . Lyd . Never mind - open at Sobriety . Lord Chesterfield's Letters . Now for ' em . Fling me [ Exit LUCY . Enter Mrs. MALAPROP and Sir ANTHONY ABSOLUTE ...
... Lucy . Oh , burn it , ma'am ! the hairdresser has torn away as far as Proper Pride . Lyd . Never mind - open at Sobriety . Lord Chesterfield's Letters . Now for ' em . Fling me [ Exit LUCY . Enter Mrs. MALAPROP and Sir ANTHONY ABSOLUTE ...
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Page 3 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic — it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Page 138 - Nay, I will say more — flattered and encouraged by the Right Honourable Gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.
Page 303 - If he is as deserving and sincere as you have represented him to me, he will never give you up so. Yet, consider, Lydia, you tell me he is but an ensign, and you have thirty thousand pounds.
Page 310 - Madam, I will handle the subject prudently. Well, I must leave you ; and let me beg you, Mrs. Malaprop, to enforce this matter roundly to the girl. Take my advice — keep a tight hand : if she rejects this proposal, clap her under lock and key ; and if you were just to let the servants forget to bring her dinner for three or four days, you can't conceive how she'd come about.
Page 396 - Then let us study to preserve it so : and while Hope pictures to us a flattering scene of future bliss, let us deny its pencil those colours which are too bright to be lasting. When hearts deserving happiness would unite their fortunes, Virtue would crown them with an unfading garland of modest hurtless flowers : but ill-judging Passion will force the gaudier rose into the wreath, whose thorn offends them when its leaves are dropped ! \Exeunt omnes.
Page 389 - Then pray keep it fast, while you have it. Acres. Sir Lucius— I doubt it is going — yes— my valour is certainly going ! — it is sneaking off ! — I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands ! Sir Luc.
Page 92 - I can't make her love me, there is great satisfaction in quarrelling with her ; and I think she never appears to such advantage as when she is doing everything in her power to plague me.
Page 91 - ... life before my friends had done wishing me joy. Yet I chose with caution — a girl bred wholly in the country, who never knew luxury beyond one silk gown, nor dissipation above the annual gala of a race ball.
Page 324 - I hope your prayers may be heard, with all my heart. Well, then, Jack, I have been considering that I am so strong and hearty, I may continue to plague you a long time. Now, Jack, I am sensible that the income of your commission, and what I have hitherto allowed you, is but a small pittance for a lad of your spirit. Capt. A. Sir, you are very good. Sir A. And it is my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world.
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