PlaysJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 299 - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape...
Pàgina 437 - Sir, I will undertake to make it out, that robbing him is a downright meritorious Act. Besides, Sir, if you have any Qualms of Conscience, you may return it him again. Your having Possession of it, will bring him to any Terms. Fred. Well, well. I believe there is little Danger of thy stealing any thing from him. So about the first Affair. It is that only which causes my present Pain.
Pàgina 288 - No, not in any manner, not in the least, not at all ; you throw away your breath, you lose your time ; you may confine me, beat me, bruise me, destroy me, kill me, do what you will, use me as you will, but I never will consent ; nor all your threats, nor all your blows, nor all your ill-usage, never shall...
Pàgina 396 - I'ma little afraid of, that is, that she has not quite as much fortune as one might fairly expect. Fred. Oh, Sir, consider her merit, and you may easily make an abatement in her fortune : for Heaven's sake, Sir, don't let that prevent your design. Fortune is nothing in comparison with her beauty and merit.
Pàgina 262 - Ay, hussy, a regular education ; first at the charity-school, where I learnt to read ; then I waited on a gentleman at Oxford, where I learnt very near as much as my master ; from whence I attended a travelling physician six years, under the facetious denomination of a Merry-Andrew, where I learnt physic. Dorc. O that thou hadst followed him still ! Cursed be the hour wherein I answered the parson " I will !
Pàgina 449 - Love. I am very much obliged to you, Lappet ; indeed, I am very much obliged to you. Lap. I am sure, Sir, I have a very great satisfaction in serving you, and I hope you will consider of that little affair that I mentioned to you to-day about my lawsuit.
Pàgina 401 - Ah, sir! things are not managed in that manner ; he takes more care to conceal himself than you do ; there are greater mysteries in these matters than you imagine : why, he would not so much as tell me the lender's name ; and he is to bring him to-day to talk with you in some third person's house, to learn from your own mouth the particulars of your estate and family.
Pàgina 269 - You may, perhaps, buy fagots cheaper otherwhere; but if you find "such in all this country, you shall have mine for nothing. To make but one word then with you, you shall have mine for ten shillings a hundred. James. Don't talk in that manner, I desire you.
Pàgina 392 - You must come to particulars. I shall never discover your mistress till you tell me more than that she is a woman, and lives in this town. Fred. Her fortune is very small.
Pàgina 267 - I'll give you my word, you'll never make him own himself one, unless you both of you take a good cudgel, and thrash him into it; 'tis what we are all forced to do, when we have any need of him.