The Beggar's Opera: An Opera in Three ActsJohn Dicks, 1900 |
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Ackee Alice Anne Barb Blanche Borgia Captain Corrig Cregan Crosses D'Aig D'Aigrigny Dagobert Dame Danny Danny Mann dear Despardo devil Djalma Don Martin door dress drink Duke Eily Enter Exeunt Exit Fadlakeen father FRANK HARDY Gennaro gentleman Gil Blas girl give Gubetta hand happy Hardress Harry HARRY STANLEY hear heart Heaven honour husband Isabel Jane Jeppo John Knick Knickerbocker Kyrle lady Lalla Rookh Lockit look Lord Lucretia Lucretia Borgia Lucy madam Maffio married Mensia Miss Gr mother Muckross Head Myles never night Oloferno Papillion Paul Paul Clifford Peach Phebe Phil Polly poor pray prisoner Rennepont Rip Van Winkle Roch Rodin Rolando SCENE servant Sheelah Sir H sure tell Terp thee there's thou wife Wild Winkle Witherton woman word Young Young W
Populaire passages
Pagina 855 - What a Fool is a fond Wench! Polly is most confoundedly bit.— I love the Sex. And a Man who loves Money, might as well be contented with one Guinea, as I with one Woman.
Pagina 851 - POLLY Polly. I know as well as any of the fine ladies how to make the most of myself and of my man too. A woman knows how to be mercenary, though she hath never been in a court or at an assembly. We have it in our natures, papa.
Pagina 855 - Betty, strong waters will, in time, ruin your constitution. You should leave those to your betters. What! and my pretty Jenny Diver too ! As prim and demure as ever ! There is not any prude, though ever so high bred, hath a more sanctified look, with a more mischievous heart.
Pagina 858 - I am hanged, she would fain have the credit of being thought my widow Really, Polly, this is no time for a dispute of this sort; for whenever you are talking of marriage, I am thinking of hanging.
Pagina 861 - I go undismayed, for death is a debt — A debt on demand, so take what I owe. Then farewell, my love — dear charmers, adieu! Contented I die — 'tis the better for you. Here ends all dispute, for the rest of our lives, For this way, at once, I please all my wives.
Pagina 862 - Tis a plain proof that the world is all alike, and that even our gang can no more trust one another than other people.
Pagina 851 - Woman, and is as nimble-finger'd as a Juggler. If an unlucky Session does not cut the Rope of thy Life, I pronounce, Boy, thou wilt be a great Man in History.
Pagina 259 - He had, the assurance, last winter, to court a tradesman's daughter in the city, with two thousand pounds to her fortune, and got me to write his love,letters. He pretended to be an ensign in a marching regiment ; so wheedled the old folks into consent, and would have carried the girl off, but was unluckily prevented by the washer- woman, who happened to be his first cousin. Enter PHILIP. Mr. Philip, your servant. Phi. You are welcome to England, Sir Harry ; I hope you received the card, and will...
Pagina 852 - Yes, indeed, the sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice, methinks, for then or never is the time to make her fortune.
Pagina 857 - Brother, brother— we are both in the wrong— we shall be both losers in the dispute— for you know we have it in our power to hang each other. You should not be so passionate. LOCK. Nor you so provoking. PEACH. 'Tis our mutual interest; 'tis for the interest of the world we should agree.