 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1965 - 32 pages
...saw such an idiot, such a trembler. At this rate, man, how can you ever expect to marry? MARL. Never! To go through all the terrors of a formal courtship,...out the broad staring question of, 'Madam, will you marry me?' No, no, that's a strain much above me, I assure you. HAST. How is it, then, that you are... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1993 - 68 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...the broad, staring question of. — "Madam, will you marry me ? " No, no, that's a strain much above me, 1 assure you. HAST. I pity you! But how do you... | |
 | 364 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 startquestion of, " Madam, will you marry me ? " No, no, that's a strain much above me, I assure you.... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1928 - 650 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...together with the episode of aunts, grandmothers, and cousW ins, and at last to blurt out the broad staring question of, "Madam, will you marry me?" No,... | |
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Never ; unless, as among kings 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 might be endured. 
