William Congreve: sein Leben und seine Lustspiele, Volume 6Braumüller, 1897 - 179 páginas |
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Página 121 - I know the length of the Emperor of China's foot ; have kissed the Great Mogul's slipper, and rid a hunting upon an elephant with the Cham of Tartary. — Body o...
Página 170 - 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 teatable drinks, as tea, chocolate, and coffee...
Página 168 - If you do, I protest I must recede — or think that I have made a prostitution of decorums, but in the vehemence of compassion, and to save the life of a person of so much importance WAIT.
Página 169 - Your bill of fare is something advanced in this latter account. Well, have I liberty to offer conditions - that when you are dwindled into a wife, I may not be beyond measure enlarged into a husband?
Página 42 - to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness.
Página 169 - I please; and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste ; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like because they are your acquaintance ; or to be intimate with fools because they may be your relations. Come to dinner when I please, dine in my dressing-room when I'm out of humour, without giving a reason.
Página 71 - His style is inimitable, nay perfect. It is the highest model of comic dialogue. Every sentence is replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a new triumph of wit, a new conquest over dulness.
Página 119 - I shall get a fine reputation by coming to see fellows in a morning.
Página 138 - ... was subservient to my pleasure ; and my only pleasure was to please this lady : I have made many vain attempts ; and find at last that nothing but my ruin can effect it ; which, for that reason, I will sign to. Give me the paper. Ang. Generous Valentine ! [Aside. Buck. Here is the deed, sir. Val. But where is the bond, by which I am obliged to sign this ? Buck.