 | William Dunlap - 1833 - 402 pages
...jug as the good woman put it down, he looked at Mrs. Burns, and with some humour endeavoured to sing, How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away, but with a voice which defies art and nature for a comparison. " Mrs. Burns now protested against any... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 340 pages
...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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 678 pages
...ready to become Lady Stanmore, and that each secretly thought the chances were iu her own favour. But How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! has often been sung and said ; and Sir John felt himself somewhat in the dilemma of the ass, celebrated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1838 - 382 pages
...I claim my own ? Justice bids me speak. AIR. — MAC. — (Have you heard of a frolicksome ditty.) How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! But, while ye thus tease me together, To neither a word will I say ; But tol de rol, &c. POLLY. Sure... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1838 - 380 pages
...not I claim my own ? Justice bids me speak. AIR.—MAC.—(Have you heard of a frolicksome ditty.) How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away! But, while ye thus tease me togetner, To neither a word will I say; But tol de rol, &c. POLLY. Sure... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1838 - 932 pages
...ladies, I am not struck silent, like Captain Macheath, when he encountered two beauties at once : ' How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away. Bat, while you thus plague me together, To neither a word will I say — But ToMe.rol — lol-de-rol-lol.'... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1839 - 874 pages
...— you are annoyed, Herbert, I can see. Did the Misses Banham weary you ? Or are you thinking ? " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." Suppose you toss up." " Hang the Banhams \" exclaimed Herbert pettishly. " For shame, Herbert ! You... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1839 - 208 pages
...— you are annoyed, Herbert, I can see. Did the Misses Banhain weary you ? Or are yx>u thinking ? ' How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away.' Suppose you toss up." " Hang the Banhams '." exclaimed Herbert pettishly. " For shame, Herbert ! You... | |
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How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away! 
