Types of Social Comedy

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Robert Metcalf Smith
Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, 1928 - Всего страниц: 759
 

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Стр. 284 - I'll leave it to all men of sense, But you, my good friend, are the Pigeon. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. Then come, put the jorum about, And let us be merry and clever, Our hearts and our liquors are stout, Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.
Стр. 203 - Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous actions? To save that idol reputation. If the familiarities of our loves had produced that consequence of which you were apprehensive, where could you have fixed a father's name with credit, but on a husband? I knew Fainall to be a man lavish of his morals, an interested and professing friend, a false and a designing lover...
Стр. 456 - The welcome visitors' approach denote; Farewell all quality of high renown, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious town ! Farewell ! your revels I partake no more, And Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er! All this I told our bard ; he smiled, and said 'twas clear, I ought to play deep tragedy next year. Meanwhile he drew wise morals from his play, And in these solemn periods...
Стр. 305 - My son, sir. They are contracted to each other. Observe their little sports. They fall in and out ten times a day, as if they were man and. wife already. (To them.) Well, Tony, child, what soft things are you saying to your cousin Constance this evening? TONY. I have been saying no soft things ; but that it's very hard to be followed about so.
Стр. 221 - Then I alone the conquest prize, When I insult a rival's eyes: If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Стр. 298 - So I find this fellow's civilities begin to grow troublesome. But who can be angry at those assiduities which are meant to please him? — Ha! what do I see?
Стр. 236 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after.
Стр. 404 - Then he'll have the worst of it. What ! you wouldn't train a horse for the course by keeping him from corn? For my part, egad, I'm never so successful as when I am a little merry : let me throw on a bottle of champagne, and I never lose — at least I never feel my losses, which is exactly the same thing.
Стр. 228 - Discover to my lady your wife's conduct; threaten to part with her. My lady loves her, and will come to any composition to save her reputation. Take the opportunity of breaking it just upon the discovery of this imposture. My lady will be enraged beyond bounds, and sacrifice niece, and fortune and all at that conjuncture.
Стр. 2 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...

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