The Plays & Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The school for scandal. The critic. The camp. The forty thieves

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B. Blackwell, 1928
 

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Стр. 43 - tis out of pure good humour ; and I take it for granted, they deal exactly in the same manner with me.
Стр. 131 - Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We...
Стр. 34 - Dundizzy (who you know is as deaf as a post), has Miss Piper had twins ? — This mistake, as you may imagine, threw the whole company into a fit of laughter.
Стр. 53 - I am sorry to hear it; he has too good a character to be an honest fellow. Everybody speaks well of him! Psha! then he has bowed as low to knaves and fools as to the honest dignity of genius and virtue.
Стр. 142 - I do. Here are two young men, to whom Sir Peter has acted as a kind of guardian since their father's death; the eldest possessing the most amiable character, and universally well spoken of — the youngest, the most dissipated and extravagant young fellow in the kingdom...
Стр. 88 - I shall never deliberately do a dishonourable action ; but if a pretty woman was purposely to throw herself in my way — and that pretty woman married to a man old enough to be her father Joseph S. Well— Charles S. Why I believe I should be obliged to Joseph S. What ? Charles S. To borrow a little of your morality, that's all.
Стр. 45 - Nay, I allow even that's better than the pains Mrs. Prim takes to conceal her losses in front. She draws her mouth till it...
Стр. 151 - 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.
Стр. 92 - The fact is, sir, that lady Teazle, knowing my pretensions to your ward Maria — I say, sir, — lady Teazle, being apprehensive of the jealousy of your temper — and knowing my friendship to the family — she, sir, I say — called here — in order that— I might explain these pretensions — but on your coming — being apprehensive — as I said — of your jealousy — she withdrew — and this, you may depend on it, is the whole truth of the matter.
Стр. 28 - Snake has just been rallying me on our mutual attachment ; but I have informed him of our real views. You know how useful he has been to us, and, believe me, the confidence is not ill placed.

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