Category: Humour
The irresistible broad humour, which is the predominant quality of this drama, is so exquisitely interspersed with touches of nature more refined, with occasional flashes of wit, and with events so interesting, that, if the production is not of that perfect kind which the most...
_Dennis._ A pretty blustratious night we have had! and the sun peeps through the fog this morning, like the copper pot in my kitchen.--Devil a traveller do I see coming to the R...
12. Chapter 12_Sir Simon._ To be sure it is;--but men, like you, shou'dn't be too apt to lay hold of every sentiment justice drops, lest you misapply it. 'Tis like an officious footman snatch...
7. Chapter 7_Mrs. Brul._ Ods, my little heart! Miss, why so impatient? Hav'n't you as genteel a parlour as any lady in the land could wish to sit down in?--The bed's turn'd up in a chest of...
5. Chapter 5_Job._ I won't. Reason bid me love my child, and help my friend:--what's the consequence? my friend has run one way, and broke up my trade; my daughter has run another, and brok...
6. Chapter 6_Sir Simon._ Your arrival, a day before your promise, gives us such convenient leisure to talk over the arrangements, relative to the marriage of Lady Caroline Braymore, your lo...
8. Chapter 8_Dennis._ I've stretched my neck half a yard longer, looking out after that rapscallion, Dan. Och! and is it yourself I see, at last? There he comes, in a snail's trot, with a b...
4. Chapter 4_Frank._ [_Throwing down the Pen._] It don't signify--I cannot write. I blot, and tear; and tear, and blot; and----. Come here, Williams. Do let me hear you, once more. Why the...
3. Chapter 3_Shuff._ Muggins--I recollect. Pay the postboy, Muggins. And, harkye, take particular care of the chaise: I borrowed it of my friend, Bobby Fungus, who sprang up a peer, in the...
11. Chapter 11_Job._ Two hours out of four and twenty! I hope all that belong to law, are a little quicker than his worship; if not, when a case wants immediate remedy, it's just eleven to on...
9. Chapter 9_Frank._ Shuffleton's intelligence astonishes me!--So soon to throw herself into the arms of another!----and what could effect, even if time for perseverance had favoured him, s...
1. Chapter 1The irresistible broad humour, which is the predominant quality of this drama, is so exquisitely interspersed with touches of nature more refined, with occasional flashes of wit...
10. Chapter 10_Pereg._ Sir Simon does not hurry himself; but 'tis a custom with the great, to make the little, and the unknown, dance attendance. When I left Cornwall, as a boy, this house, I...