The Plays of Richard Brinsley SheridanMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 455 ページ |
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Acres Alonzo Aman Antonio Beefeater believe Berinthia Beverley brother Carlos Charles Clara Cora Crabt Dangle dear devil Doct Duenna Egad Elvira Enter Sir Exeunt Exit father Faulk Faulkland fellow Ferd gentleman give hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope husband i'faith Isaac Jack Joseph Julia Lady Sneer Lady Sneerwell Lady Teazle leave Lieut look Lord F Lory Louisa Loveless Lucy Lydia ma'am madam maid Malaprop Maria married matter Miss H Moses never Nurse on't Peruvian Pizarro plague poor pray Puff rogue Rolla Rowley SCENE School for Scandal Sir Anth Sir Anthony Sir Benj Sir Fret Sir Luc Sir Lucius Sir Oliver Sir Peter Sir Tunbelly Soldiers soul speak sure tell thee there's thing thou thought Tilb Townly true what's Whiskerandos wife word Young F Zounds
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23 ページ - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries ! — but above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not mis-spell and mis-pronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
46 ページ - Nay, but, Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute ! not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes!
214 ページ - No, no, madam, you shall throw away no more sums on such unmeaning luxury. 'Slife ! to spend as much to furnish your dressing-room with flowers in winter as would suffice to turn the Pantheon into a greenhouse, and give a fete champetre at Christmas.
64 ページ - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. For my part, I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but I ha
250 ページ - Upon my soul, sir, I do not ;• I think it is as honest a looking face as any in the room, dead or alive. But I suppose uncle Oliver goes with the rest of the lumber ? CHAS.
52 ページ - It is but too true, indeed, ma'am; — yet I fear our ladies should share the blame — they think our admiration of beauty so great, that knowledge in them would be superfluous. Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom. — Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
222 ページ - I would have law merchant for them too; and in all cases of slander currency, whenever the drawer of the lie was not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
204 ページ - Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We have pride, envy...
234 ページ - Ay, and when my cousin Sophy -has called you a stiff, peevish old bachelor, and laughed at me for thinking of marrying one who might be my father, I have always defended you, and said I didn't think you so ugly, by any means. Sir P. Thank you. Lady T. And I dared say you'd make a very good sort of a husband.
240 ページ - ... glass, Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none, sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes; And here's to the nymph with but one, sir.