Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical : Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres-royal, London, Том 8

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John Cumberland, 1826
 

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Сторінка 4 - EXITS and ENTRANCES. R. means Right; L. Left; RD Right Door; LD Left Door ; SE Second Entrance ; UE Upper Entrance; MD Middle Door. RELATIVE POSITIONS. R. means Right; L. Left; C. Centre; HC Right of Centre; LC Left of Centre.
Сторінка 54 - Mar. A monkey ! dear madam, let me see it; I can tame a monkey as well as the best of them all. Oh, how I love the little miniatures of man ! Mir.
Сторінка 37 - I have employed my woman's brother, who is a lawyer in the Temple, to settle matters just to your liking ; you are to give your .consent to my marriage, which is to yourself, you know : but, mum, you must take no notice of that. So then I will, that is, with your leave, put my writings into his hands; then to-morrow we come slap upon them with a wedding that nobody thought on, by which you seize me and my estate, and I suppose make a bonfire of your own act and deed. Sir Fran. Nay, but Chargy, if...
Сторінка 17 - Speak quickly, or I shall turn about— Not yet — Poor lady ! she expects I should comfort her, and to do her justice, she has said enough to encourage me. [Turns about.] Ha!
Сторінка 23 - Fleam had told the electors, that master Primmer was an Irishman ; and so they would none of them give their vote for a foreigner. . Sneak. So then I have it for certain : [Huzza .'] Now, brother Bruin, you shall see how I'll manage my madam.
Сторінка 68 - I have been a little too familiar with you as things are fallen out ; but since there's no help for't, you must forgive me.
Сторінка 63 - Sir Geo. Come, madam, do not blindly cast your life away just in the moment you would wish to save it.
Сторінка 21 - Peter Primmer, the schoolmaster. Heel. Ay, neighbours, and a sufficient man : let me tell you, master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning, that can lay down the law : why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson ; and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia.
Сторінка 63 - S:ieath ! madam, you'll ruin all. Your father believes him to be signior Babinetto. Compose yourself a little, pray, madam. [He runs to SIR JEALOUS.] She begins to hear reason, sir ; the fear of being turned out of doors has done it.
Сторінка 10 - I had a strong inclination to go ten guineas with a sort of a, sort of a — kind of a milksop, as I thought. A pox of the dice ! he flung out, and my pockets being empty, as Charles knows they often are, he proved a surly North Briton, and broke my face for my deficiency.

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