The Good Natur'd Man and She Stoops to ConquerD.C. Heath, 1903 - 285 pages |
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... father was dead , and his mother left without means . What was to be his calling ? The Church was the first thought . But either from insuffi- cient knowledge , or eccentricity of costume , he was re- jected for ordination by the Bishop ...
... father was dead , and his mother left without means . What was to be his calling ? The Church was the first thought . But either from insuffi- cient knowledge , or eccentricity of costume , he was re- jected for ordination by the Bishop ...
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... father - in - law's house for an inn . This , you see , borders upon farce . The dialogue is quick and gay , and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable . " The kind reception " which Johnson hoped for his friend's new ...
... father - in - law's house for an inn . This , you see , borders upon farce . The dialogue is quick and gay , and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable . " The kind reception " which Johnson hoped for his friend's new ...
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... father's house ; the only one where your's could remain without censure . Oliv . But consider , Leontine , your disobe - 465 dience and my indiscretion ; your being sent to France to bring home a sister , and , instead of a sister ...
... father's house ; the only one where your's could remain without censure . Oliv . But consider , Leontine , your disobe - 465 dience and my indiscretion ; your being sent to France to bring home a sister , and , instead of a sister ...
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... father , to make her an offer of my heart and fortune . Oliv . Your heart and fortune ! 480 485 490 Leont . Don't be alarm'd , my dearest . Can Olivia think so meanly of my honour , or my love , as to suppose I could ever hope for happi ...
... father , to make her an offer of my heart and fortune . Oliv . Your heart and fortune ! 480 485 490 Leont . Don't be alarm'd , my dearest . Can Olivia think so meanly of my honour , or my love , as to suppose I could ever hope for happi ...
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... father's com- mands ; and perhaps , upon her refusal , I may have his consent to chuse for myself . Oliv . Well , I submit . And yet , my Leon- tine , I own , I shall envy her even your pretended 510 addresses . I consider every look ...
... father's com- mands ; and perhaps , upon her refusal , I may have his consent to chuse for myself . Oliv . Well , I submit . And yet , my Leon- tine , I own , I shall envy her even your pretended 510 addresses . I consider every look ...
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Page 155 - I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes — Water Parted, or the minuet in Ariadne.
Page 148 - Then to be plain with you, Kate, I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day. I have his father's letter, in which he informs me his son is set out, and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.
Page xxvi - By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.
Page 160 - And I detest your three chairs and a bolster. TONY. You do, do you? then, let me see — what if you go on a mile further, to the Buck's Head; the old Buck's Head on the hill, one of the best inns in the whole county ? HAST.
Page 207 - In the first place I shall be seen, and that is no small advantage to a girl who brings her face to market. Then I shall perhaps make an acquaintance, and that's no small victory gained over one who never addresses any but the wildest of her sex.
Page 143 - Ay, your times were fine times indeed; you have been telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company.
Page 163 - You must not be so talkative, Diggory. You must be all attention to the guests. You must hear us talk, and not think of talking...
Page 127 - Nor is this rule without the strongest foundation in nature, as the distresses of the mean by no means affect us so strongly as the calamities of the great. When tragedy exhibits to us some great man fallen from his height, and struggling with want and adversity, we feel his situation in the same manner as we suppose he himself must feel, and our pity is increased in proportion to the height from which he fell.
Page 150 - Lud, this news of papa's puts me all in a flutter. Young, handsome; these he put last, but I put them foremost. Sensible, good-natured; I like all that. But then, reserved and sheepish ; -that's much against him. Yet can't he be cured of his timidity, by being taught to be\ proud of his wife?
Page 163 - Ha! ha! ha! The story is a good one. Well, honest Diggory, you may laugh at that — but still remember to be attentive.