...gentle maid, and before him a savoury pullet, might well, with his friend Macheath, have sung — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ;" while sundry cavaliers were courting the good graces of their Juliets, by helping them freely to...

...disgraceful light in which he conceived he must appear in her sight. He could not say with Macheath — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ;•' for just then he was truly miserable with both, and could bear the company of neither. At length,...

...more, I cannot like her half so well as Fanny. Fair damsels ! I will not sing with Macheath—. t; How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away," ' «• since 1 mean for the present to be happy, even while I reject ye both— "I wili not my unhoused...

...two at once !" and he half hummed through his teeth the air then in its zenith of popularity : — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" " Nay," said Lady Marchmont, " we trust that our petition will not be so very outrageous, either....

...Stewart), b. at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, 1795; d. in London, 1s35. 1 48 Scene from the Beggar's Opera. " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" Macheath in prison, seated at a table, with bottles and glasses, in a rakish, reckless attitude;...

...he were preparing his mistress for what was impending ; and also sometimes in the mood of saying, " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" In looking forward to the terms of their future intercourse, the husband of "Bonnie Jean" says,...

...I not a sad dog to forget my Lady and Maria? Alas ! the dual number has been prejudicial to both. " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." I am like the ass of famous memory ; I cannot tell which way to turn first, and there I stand mute...

...not a sad dog to forget my Lady and Maria ? Alas ! the dual number has been prejudicial to both. " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." I am like the ass of famous memory j I cannot tell which way to turn first, and there I stand mute...

...cruel, barbarous man. Dup. Only for a short time, my dear. Dup. My woman ! ha ! ha ! ha ! [Sings.] " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ; But while you thus tease me together, To neither a word will I say." Ha ! ha! [Going, L. Cec. Provoking!...

...his desire. But Walter, in the meantime, kept on the even tenor of his way, thinking no doubt — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." How many have been situated like Walter Manning, and how many have said these very words in their hearts...