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" How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away! "
The Edinburgh annual register - Page 384
1812
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The Marlburian

Marlborough coll - 1874 - 864 pages
...our two loving sonls. " Enlb." sende us some amatory verses about Chloe and Phyllis with the motto " How happy could I be with either Were t'other dear charmer away." They are neatly turned, but unsuitable in character for the Marlburian. We have reserved for the last...
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Ten Years a Rover, Volume 119

William Stephens Hayward - 1875 - 378 pages
...there'll be a blaze. What a fool I am to be in this position at all ! In the words of the poet — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." He was up betimes in the morning, and at once missed his revolver. He knocked at the door of Diana's...
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The Art of Pleasing

George Roy - 1875 - 60 pages
...pleasing rival beauties when met apart, when I met them together I would never go farther than— " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." I will now endeavour to show how you may most certainly please when in honour bound to differ in opinion...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. GAY: Beggar's Opera. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! GAY : Beggar's Opera. Most women's weak resolves, like reeds, will fly, Shake with each breath, and...
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Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry through Ulysses

Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 pages
...statement is a paraphrase of the musical complaint of a man who suffers from the presence of two lovers: 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. Ri tol de rol lol de rol li do....
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Conference Papers

1903 - 350 pages
...appeal for aid. fhe average man, in the face of these two conflicting theories, may well exclaim " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away " ; and as is so often the case, this simple instinct may assist us in reaching a correct conclusion....
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Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

Harry Levin - 1988 - 225 pages
...competition. Such is the happy-go-lucky dilemma of MacHeath, the dashing highwayman in The Beggar's Opera: "How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away. " This need not imply that all mistresses are alike, since his Polly and his Lucy are charming in different...
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Baseball: The Early Years

Harold Seymour, Dorothy Seymour Mills - 1989 - 392 pages
...intended, suggested he render a "Baritone solo, with lyre accompaniment" entitled "New Yorks vs. Mets; or how happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." And there was evidence against Mutrie. For example, he had tipped off Day in advance about the Mets'...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...because, like great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray their friends. 1551 The Beggar's Opera How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away! 1552 Dione Behold the victim of Parthenia's pride! He saw, he sighed, he loved, was scorned and died....
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...because, like great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray their friends. 3846 The Beggar's Opera mbs grew stiff and cold, Their heart's blood dyed its every fold. 3847 The Captives She who has never loved, has never lived. 3848Dione Behold the victim of Parthenia's...
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