Category: Humour
The author of this play was an elegant writer, and a brave soldier--yet, as an author he had faults, and as a general failures. His life was eventful; and he appears to have had, among his other qualities, that of patient philosophy: or if, in the warmth of youth, or pride of...
_Miss Als._ Returned, Blandish? I desire you will not insinuate it ever was without them--Why sure, you would not have the world imagine the temper of an heiress of my class, wa...
9. SCENE II._Miss Alton._ What perplexing scenes I already meet with in this house? I ought, however, to be contented in the security it affords against the attempts of Heartly. I am conten...
5. SCENE I._Sir C._ In looking over the writings Alscrip has sent me, preparatory to his daughter's settlement, I find mention of a conveyance from a Sir William Charlton, of Devonshire. W...
7. SCENE III._Mrs. Blandish._ Oh, with the mixture of those charming Italian flowers, and the knots of pearl that gathered up the festoons, never any thing had so happy an effect----It put t...
11. SCENE I._Chignon._ Que diable veut dire tout ca----vat devil, all dis mean?--Monsieur Alscrip enrage----Mademoiselle Alscrip fly about like de dancing fury at de Opera----My littel musi...
3. SCENE II._Lord G._ Preposterous policy! Whenever the father builds, games, or electioneers, the heir and title roust go to market. Oh, the happy families Sir Clement Flint will enumerate...
10. SCENE III._Rightly._ Upon all these matters, Mr. Alscrip, I am authorized by my client, Sir Clement Flint, to agree. There remains nothing but your favouring me with the inspection of the...
8. SCENE I._Miss Alton._ Thanks to Mrs. Blandish's inexhaustible talent for encomium, I shall be relieved from one part of a companion that my nature revolts at. But who comes here? It's w...
12. SCENE II._Lord G._ For my reconciliation with you, I hope your former partiality will return to my aid; and as for the world, I despise it. The multitude look at happiness through the fa...
2. SCENE I._Adieu, my charming friend, my amiable, my all Accomplished associate! conceive the ardour of Your lovers united with your own sensibility-- Still will the compound be but faint...
4. SCENE III._Mrs. Sagely._ Indeed, Miss Alton, (since you are resolved to continue that name) you may bless yourself for finding me out in this wilderness.--Wilderness! this town is ten tim...
16. SCENE II._Lord G._ Not here! I am sure I marked the hour as well as the place, precisely in my note. [_Walks about._] Had I been told three days ago, that I should have been the appellan...
13. SCENE III._Lady E._ It will not do. My eyes may run over a thousand subjects, but my thoughts centre in one. Ah! that sigh! that sigh from the fair sufferer this morning----I have found i...
1. ACT II SCENE IIIThe author of this play was an elegant writer, and a brave soldier--yet, as an author he had faults, and as a general failures. His life was eventful; and he appears to have had...
14. SCENE IV._Lady E._ Oh, lud! I could hardly tremble more at opening this man's apartment, were there a possibility of finding him within side. How do people find courage to do a wrong thi...
6. SCENE II._Alscrip._ [_Without._] Dinner not ordered till seven o'clock--Bid the kitchen-maid get me some eggs and bacon. Plague, what with the time of dining and the French cookery, I am...
15. SCENE I._Cliff._ Your knowledge in the profession, Mr. Rightly, is as unquestionable as your integrity; but there is something so surprising in the recovery of the Charlton estate.--If...