A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage ...C. Elliot, 1788 |
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... Shall my words , tipt with flattery , prepare A kind exertion of your tend'reft care ? Shall I prefent our Author to your fight , All pale and trembling for his fate this night ? VOL . VI . A To Shall I folicit the most pow'rful arms To aid ...
... Shall my words , tipt with flattery , prepare A kind exertion of your tend'reft care ? Shall I prefent our Author to your fight , All pale and trembling for his fate this night ? VOL . VI . A To Shall I folicit the most pow'rful arms To aid ...
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Shall I folicit the most pow'rful arms To aid his caufe - the force of beauty's charms ? Or tell each critic , his approving tafte Muft give the Sterling ftamp , wherever plac'd ? This might be done - but fo to feek applaufe Argues a ...
Shall I folicit the most pow'rful arms To aid his caufe - the force of beauty's charms ? Or tell each critic , his approving tafte Muft give the Sterling ftamp , wherever plac'd ? This might be done - but fo to feek applaufe Argues a ...
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... shall only just give a Mrs Cir . Lord ! I wonder Mr Circuit you would breed that boy up to the bar . Serj . Why not , chuck ? He has fine fteady parts , and for his time moots a point— Mrs Cir . Steady ! ftupid you mean : nothing fure ...
... shall only just give a Mrs Cir . Lord ! I wonder Mr Circuit you would breed that boy up to the bar . Serj . Why not , chuck ? He has fine fteady parts , and for his time moots a point— Mrs Cir . Steady ! ftupid you mean : nothing fure ...
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... shall there be able to equip ourselves with fuitable dreffes . Sir Luke . Alons , alons ! Mrs Sim . There is no time to be loft . ( All rife . Mrs Cir . ( Stopping short as they are going out . ) But won't my husband be angry if we ...
... shall there be able to equip ourselves with fuitable dreffes . Sir Luke . Alons , alons ! Mrs Sim . There is no time to be loft . ( All rife . Mrs Cir . ( Stopping short as they are going out . ) But won't my husband be angry if we ...
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... shall hate her as long as I live . Serj . And I too . Sir Luke . Only think of her forcing me , as it were with a fword at my breaft , to play fuch a trick ; you , my dear Serjeant , the best , trueft friend I have in the world ...
... shall hate her as long as I live . Serj . And I too . Sir Luke . Only think of her forcing me , as it were with a fword at my breaft , to play fuch a trick ; you , my dear Serjeant , the best , trueft friend I have in the world ...
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