| Gerhard Fischer, Bernhard Greiner - 2007 - 478 pages
...'Mrs. Peachum'. But when acknowledging one spouse means denying another, Macheath refuses to speak: How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away! But while you thus teaze me together, To neither a Word will I say. (II. Air 1 7) When the jailer brings... | |
| William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 pages
...sister-arts of Painting, Poetry, and music, as they advance to him in a Pas de Trois at the Opera, 'How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away'; but while 'they all teaze him together',5 2 'the glass of fashion, and the mould of form'] from Hamlet,... | |
| Charles Osborne - 2007 - 648 pages
...Polly, who throws herself at Macheath addressing him as 'my dear husband', sends Lucy into a fury. 'How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away', sings Macheath philosophically. Peachum arrives and eventually succeeds in dragging his daughter away,... | |
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