The Comedy of Manners

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G. Bell & sons, Limited, 1913 - 308 sivua

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Sivu 194 - I'll fly and be followed to the last moment. Though I am upon the very verge of matrimony, I ^"expect you should solicit me as much as if I were wavering at the grate of a monastery, with one foot over the threshold.
Sivu 167 - And just abandoning the ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
Sivu 16 - THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times cannot bear them.
Sivu 18 - I confess for myself that (with no great delinquencies to answer for) I am glad for a season to take an airing beyond the diocese of the strict conscience, - not to live always in the precincts of the law-courts, - but now and then, for a dream-while or so, to imagine a world with no meddling restrictions - to get into recesses, whither the hunter cannot follow me Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.
Sivu 132 - Nay, nay, I have known you deny your china before now, but you shan't put me off so. Come.
Sivu 138 - I'm resolved to make you out of love with the play. I say, the lewdest, filthiest thing is his china ; nay, I will never forgive the beastly author his china. He has quite taken away the reputation of poor china itself, and...
Sivu 196 - Trifles ! As liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please ; to write and receive letters without interrogatories or wry faces on your part ; to wear what I please ; and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste ; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits...
Sivu 156 - But there is one thing at which I am more concerned than all the false criticisms that are made upon me ; and that is, some of the ladies are offended. I am heartily sorry for it ; for I declare, I would rather disoblige all the critics in the world than one of the fair sex. They are concerned that- 1 have represented some women vicious and affected.
Sivu 197 - 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?
Sivu 178 - The Double-Dealer." WELL, then, the promised hour is come at last ; The present age of wit obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit ; Theirs was the giant race before the flood ; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood.

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