Bonduca: A Tragedy, Volume 33,Edição 1G. Cawthorn, 1797 - 68 páginas |
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Página 83 - there together again ; as if we were proud of one another the first •week, and ashamed of one another ever after. Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well-bred ; let us be as
Página 85 - for a shape, till you mould my boy's head like a sugar-loaf ! and, instead of a man-child make me father to a crooked-billet. Lastly, to the dominion of the tea-table I submit.—But with proviso, that you exceed not in your province; but restrain yourself to native and simple tea-table drinks,
Página 86 - tea-table talk—Such as mending of fashions, spoiling reputations, railing at absent friends, and so forth— But that on no account you encroach on the men's prerogative, and presume to drink healths, or toast fellows ; for prevention of which I banish all foreign forces, all auxiliaries to the tea-table, as orange-brandy, all
Página 100 - mask, two rows of pins, and a child's fiddle -, a glass necklace, with the beads broken, and a quilted night-cap with one ear. Go, go, drive a trade. —These were your commodities, you treacherous trull, this was the merchandize you dealt in, when I took you into my house, placed you next myself and made
Página 86 - the men's prerogative, and presume to drink healths, or toast fellows ; for prevention of which I banish all foreign forces, all auxiliaries to the tea-table, as orange-brandy, all anniseed, cinnamon, citron, and Barbadoes-waters, together with Ratafia, and the most noble spirit of Clary. But for cowslip wine, poppy-water, and all
Página 46 - Mira. I have something more—Gone Think of you! to think of a whirlwind, though 'twere in a whirlwind, were a case of more steady contemplation ; a very tranquillity of mind and mansion. A fellow that lives in a windmill, has not a more whimsical dwelling
Página 44 - and to an echo the pleasure of hearing yourselves talk. Wit. But I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play ; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last words. Mill.
Página 43 - the lover's gift ; Dear me, what is a lover that it can give ?— Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases ; and then
Página 77 - ay, start and be surprised, and rise to meet him in a pretty disorder—Yes—-O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion—It shews the foot to advantage, and furnishes with blushes, and re-composing airs beyond comparison. Hark! there's a coach. Foi.