The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools: A ComedyJ. Bell, 1797 - 91 頁 |
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Abel Arbella Aunt believe better Blunt Blush Blushenly brother cann't Capt Char Charles Cler cousin covenant d'ye dare daugh daughter dear devil duck Dumps Exeunt Exit eyes Fain Fainlove father fellow Free gentleman gentlewoman girl give gone Gubbin hand Hark ye Harriot hear heart honest hope humour Hump Humphry husband Jack Lady Freelove Lady Paragon ladyship Latimer leave Look ye Lord Trinket lordship madam marriage marry matter mistress never Niece Numps O'Cut O'Fla O'Flaherty Oakly Oakly's Obadiah on't Phabe Phoebe pon honour poor Pounce Pr'ythee pray pretty rascal Russet Ruth servant shew shoul Sir H Sir Har Sir Harry Beagle Sir Jeff Sir Jeffery sirrah soul speak sure talk tell thee there's thing thou Tipkin Trink twas warrant wench what's wife woman young Zounds
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第 37 頁 - I say, she was; and spent her time in better learning than ever you did ; not in reading of fights and battles of dwarfs and giants, but in writing out receipts for broths, possets, caudles, and surfeit-waters, as became a good country gentlewoman.
第 37 頁 - I know not where you learned this nicety; but I can tell you, forsooth, as much as you despise it, your mother was a Bridget afore you, and an excellent housewife.
第 35 頁 - But to talk with her apart is the great matter. Pounce. The antiquated virgin has a mighty affectation for youth, and is a great lover of men and money — One of these, at least, I am sure I can gratify her in, by turning her pence in the annuities, or the stocks of one of the companies ; some way or other I'll find to entertain her, and engage you with the young lady.
第 38 頁 - I think, Mr. Oakly, you might have had humanity enough to have come to see how I did. You have taken your leave, I suppose, of all tenderness and affection! But I'll be calm; I'll not throw myself into a passion.
第 26 頁 - Ay, but brother, you rate her too high, the war has fetched down the price of women; the whole nation is overrun with petticoats; our daughters lie upon our hands, Brother Tipkin; girls are drugs, sir, mere drugs. Tip. Look ye, Sir Harry, let girls be what they will, a thousand...
第 37 頁 - Oh, the barbarous genealogy! Aunt. Of her mother Winifred, of her mother Joan. Niece. Since you will run on, then I must needs tell you I am not satisfied in the point of my nativity. Many an infant has been placed in a cottage with obscure parents, till by chance some ancient servant of the family has known it by its marks. Aunt. Ay, you had best be searched — That's like your calling the winds the fanning gales...
第 65 頁 - Sen. Then kneel, and weep no more my fairest my reconciled! Be so in a moment, for know I cannot (without wringing my own heart,) give you the least compunction Be in humour — It shall be your own fault, if ever there's a serious word more on this subject. Mrs. Cler. I must correct every idea that rises in my mind, and learn every gesture of my body a-new 1 detest the thing I was.
第 84 頁 - O the hideous fellow ! The Irish sailorman, for whom I prevailed on your lordship to get the post of regulating captain. I suppose he is come to load me with his odious thanks. I won't be troubled with him now.
第 45 頁 - If what a master's happy pencil drew, He brings more forward in dramatic view ; To your decision he submits his cause, Secure of candour, anxious for applause. But if, all rude, his artless scenes deface The simple beauties which he meant to grace ; If an invader upon others
第 23 頁 - She has spent all her solitude in reading romances; her head is full of shepherds, knights, flowery meads, groves, and streams ; so that if you talk like a man of this world to her, you do nothing.