The Minor Drama: A Collection of the Most Popular Petit Comedies, Vaudevilles, Burlettas, Travesties, Etc.; with Critical Remarks, Also the Stage Business, Casts of Characters, Costumes Relative Positions, Etc., and Each Drama Embellished with an Illustrative Engraving, Volume 3W. Taylor & Company, 1848 |
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AGATHA Bamboozle Bertrand better Binks blace bottle Bouncer Chanfrau Charles Chesham Clementine Clip Darby dare dear devil Dognose door dress drink Dumont Dupuis Emily Enter Esther Exit feel Gendarmes gentleman Geor George George Gray Gerald Germeuil give goes goot hand happy hear heaven Hollo honour horses husband JACOBITE Jane Jeremiah John Duck Kitty Lady Somerford look Loupy ma'am madam Marie married mean mistress morning murder murter never night Olympic Theatre pardon Patty Pepper Phelim Pierre Podge Polly poor nerves Portreeve Pottle Redmond Rich Ruth SCENE Sir Richard Sophy Sophy Weston Spike sure tell thee there's thing Thomas Thor Thornley thought Twit Twitter Valare Vardeck waiter what's wife window wish woman Wroughton young zeem
Popular passages
Page 4 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Page 55 - Box would come in before Mr. Cox went out. Luckily, they've never met yet — and what's more they're not very likely to do so; for Mr. Box is hard at work at a newspaper office all night, and doesn't come home till the morning, and Mr. Cox is busy making hats all day long, and doesn't come home till night; so that I'm getting double rent for my room, and neither of my lodgers are any the wiser for it It was a capital idea of mine — that it was!
Page 53 - I look as if I had just been cropped for the militia! And I was particularly emphatic in my instructions to the hair-dresser, only to cut the ends off. He must have thought I meant the other ends! Never mind — I shan't meet anybody to care about so early. Eight o'clock, I declare! I haven'ta moment to lose. Fate has placed me with the most punctual, particular, and peremptory of hatters, and I must fulfil my destiny.
Page 8 - Door. RELATIVE POSITIONS. R. means Right; L. Left; C. Centre ; RC Right of Centre; LC Left of Centre.
Page 2 - Exactly - and in one of the pockets of the coat, or the waistcoat, or the pantaloons - I forget which - there was also found a piece of paper, with these affecting farewell words: "This is thy work, oh, Penelope Ann!
Page 54 - Mrs. Bouncer, I wish to call your attention to a fact that has been evident to me for some time past — and that is, that my coals go remarkably fast— Mrs.
Page 14 - I'm sure they're out. The miles in this country much longer be, But that is a savin' of time, you see, For two of our miles is aiqual to three, Which shortens the road in a great degree. And the roads in this place is so plenty, w"e say, That you've nothing to do but to find your way ; If your hurry's not great and...
Page 7 - ... our rights and privileges, our tenures — our — and so on. Dar. It's easy for you, a tailor, to say, sew on. Port. Master Pepper, must we forfeit our honour ? Ger. All I can tell you is, sir, that they are forfeiting our property as fast as they can. Port. Our property ! Ger. I am sorry to say, I know it to my cost, for they have not left me an acre. \Villagers express sorrow.] Now, what do you say to that ? Port.
Page 7 - I'm sure, Mr. Box, I can't sufficiently thank you for your sympathy. Box. And I'm sure, Mr. Cox, you couldn't feel more, if she had been your own intended! Cox.