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The Modern British Drama: Comedies - Page 544
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...princes, my bride •were to be courted by proxy. If, indeed, like' an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...grandmothers, and cousins, and at last to blurt out the broad-staring question, of — Madam, will you marry met No, no; that's a strain much above me, I assure...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...and princes, my bride were to be courted by proxy. If, indeed, like an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...of aunts, grandmothers, and cousins, and at last to blunt out the broad staring question of, Madam, will you marry me ? No, no, that's a strain much above...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 pages
...and princes, my bride were to be courted by pioxy. If, indeed, like an Eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...out the broad staring question of ' Madam, will you marry me ? ' No, no, that 'ta strain much above me, I assure you. Hastings. I pity you. But how do...
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Lea's British drama and theatrical portrait gallery

Henry Lea - 1859 - 302 pages
...be courted by proxy. If indeed, like an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife we never saw before, it might be endured. But to go through...out the broad staring question of, Madam, will you marry me ? No, no, that's a strain much above me, I assure you. Hast. I pity you. But how do you intend...
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The poetical and prose works of Oliver Goldsmith, with life

Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pages
...and princes, my bride were to be courted by proxy. If, indced, like an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...through all the terrors of a formal courtship, together wrth the episode of aunts, grandmothers, and cousin?, and at last to blurt out the broad-star question...
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The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies ...

1859 - 828 pages
...indeed, like an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it might bt) endured. But to go through all the terrors of a formal...together with the episode of aunts, grandmothers, cousins, and at last to blurt out the broad start-question of, Madam, will you marry me 1 No, no, that...
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Encyclopädie des philologischen Studiums der neueren Sprachen, Volume 2

Bernhard Schmitz - 1860 - 480 pages
...8in» berem ©tcKen wie foígenbe angeführt werben: If indeed, like an eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he (!) never saw before, it might be endured (Goldsmith : She Sloops to Conquer) ; I'm surprised that one who is so warm a friend can be so cool...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...bridegroom, one were lo be introduced to i\ wife be never saw before, it might be endured. IJut lo go through all the terrors, of a formal courtship,...with the episode of aunts, grandmothers, and cousins, nnj at last to blurt out the broad staring question of' Madam, will you marry me?' Iso, no, that 't...
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The Poetical Works of James Beattie, and the Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 pages
...and princes, my bride were to be courted by proxy. If, indeed, like an Eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...grandmothers, and cousins, and at last to blurt out the broad-star question, of — Madam, will you marry me i No, no ; that '& a strain much above me, I assure...
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The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems ..., Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...and princes, my bride were to be courted by proxy. If, indeed, like an Eastern bridegroom, one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before, it...grandmothers, and cousins, and at last to blurt out the broad-star question of — Madam, will you marry me ? No, no ; that's a strain much above me, I assure...
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