The Beggar's Opera: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

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John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1728 - 74 страници

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Страница 4 - A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without Reprieve. I may venture to Book him. [writes] For Tom Gagg, forty Pounds.
Страница 29 - The town perhaps hath been as much obliged to me, for recruiting it with free-hearted ladies, as to any recruiting officer in the army. If it were not for us, and the other gentlemen of the sword, DruryLane would be uninhabited. AIR xxi — Would you have a young virgin, etc.
Страница 14 - How the Mother is to be pitied who hath handsome Daughters! Locks, Bolts, Bars, and Lectures of Morality are nothing to them: They break through them all.
Страница 14 - Let not your anger, my dear, break through the rules of decency, for the captain looks upon himself in the military capacity, as a gentleman by his profession.
Страница 9 - tis your Duty, my Dear, to warn the Girl against her Ruin, and to instruct her how to make the most of her Beauty. I'll go to her this moment, and sift her.
Страница 76 - Through the whole Piece you may observe such a similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable Vices) the fine Gentlemen imitate the Gentlemen of the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen.
Страница 36 - I promised the wench marriage. What signifies a promise to a woman ? Does not man in marriage itself promise a hundred things that he never means to perform ? Do all we can, women will believe us; for they look upon a promise as an excuse for following their own inclinations.
Страница 17 - But Money, Wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out. A rich Rogue now-a-days is fit Company for any Gentleman; and the World, my Dear hath not such a Contempt for Roguery as you imagine.
Страница 9 - Pleasure better than to make herself a Property! My Daughter to me should be, like a Court Lady to a Minister of State, a Key to the whole Gang. Married! If the Affair is not already done, I'll terrify her from it, by the Example of our Neighbours.
Страница 56 - What do you mean, Matt? — Sure you will not think of meddling with him! — He's a good honest kind of a fellow, and one of us.

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