Jones's British Theatre, Volume 9Chambers, 1795 |
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Page 70 - I'll tell you. — Lord Ogleby seems to entertain a visible partiality for you ; and notwithstanding the peculiarities of his behaviour, I am sure that he is humane at the bottom. He is vain to an excess ; but withal extremely good-natured, and would do any thing to recommend himself to a lady. — Do you open the whole affair of our marriage to him immediately. It will come with more irresistible persuasion from you than from...
Page 18 - I cannot be persuaded but that Sir John is an extremely cold lover. Such distant civility, grave looks, and lukewarm professions of esteem for me and the whole family ! I have heard of flames and darts, but Sir John's is a passion of mere ice and snow.
Page 62 - That was my maxum ; and, therefore, much the largest settlement was, of course, to be made upon her. As for Fanny, if she could, with a fortune of twenty or thirty thousand pounds, get a knight, or a member of parliament, or a rich common council-man, for a husband, I thought it might do very well.
Page 57 - Special fellows to drive a bargain ! and yet they are to take care of the interest of the nation truly ! — Here does this whirligig man of fashion offer to give up thirty thousand pounds in hard money, with as much indifference as if it was a China orange. By this mortgage, I shall have a hold on his...
Page 19 - Why, as to that point, I don't think he hates her. His fear of ridicule may be at the bottom. He has strange notions about the dignity of a husband. There is a secret, which he would fain tell me, and yet he is shy, and he hints, and he hesitates, and then he retreats back into himself, and ends just where he began. But with all his faults, he has fits of good nature.
Page 26 - Ma'am, that's waiting for dead men's shoes. Incline him to do you justice! — What signifies expecting and expecting? Give me a bird in the hand. If all the women in London, who happen to be in your case, were to sit down, and die of the spleen, what would become of the public places?
Page 20 - I'll give them such a glass of champagne as they never drank in their lives — no, not at a duke's table. Mrs.
Page 81 - And yet we often see features without a mind ; and the owner of them sits in the room with you, like a mere vegetable, for an hour together, till at last she is incited to the violent exertion of, ' Yes, Sir '
Page 41 - I can advertise in the Gazette to secure me from your extravagance. I have not lived in the Temple for nothing. Fur. He slept there, and calls it studying the law. Sir Bash.
Page 44 - I wish to pay you, in honour to my sister : and be assured, sir, woman as I am, that my vanity could reap no pleasure from a triumph that must result from the blackest treachery to her. [Going.