| 1863 - 594 pages
...himself migrated to Ajaccio. In fact, like Captain Macheath in the play, he appears ready to exclaim — "How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away '" The only drawback to the almost Elysian delights which Corsica holds out to the health -seeking... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...completely restored. Captain Macheath, alternately regarding Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum, sang — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away j " and Lothario appeai-s perplexed by the same predicament. This anxiety, however, is not of long... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...To being happy here below, Is to believe that we are ao. CHURCHILL.— The Ghost, Book IV. Line 285. 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. GAY. — The Beggar's Opera,... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...human nature appear ridiculous to beings of superior faculties, it must be pride. — Spectator. 2. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away. — Oat/. 3. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1865 - 696 pages
...constitutions. STKEKB. Drawn by MA l1 J L' NK ¡> R 0 II 1C NADE П 3. £8« Üie I'oeuu 512 JUNE PKOMENADERS. ' How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !' SIGHING, whispering, shouting, thundering, Leaping up the crashing scale, Murmurs faint swelled... | |
| 1865 - 816 pages
...a new edition of the " Bejrgars' Opera," Mr. Gladstone taking the pjrt of Macheath, and singing — "How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away I " The new Parliament met, and the leaders of a mixed Opposition lost no time in bringing on such... | |
| Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1865 - 300 pages
...uncertain among so many wooers which to take, and feeling, bike the Captain in the Beggars' Opera, — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! " Like its schoolboy master, the rod built from the cane then chosen has since had many a narrow... | |
| 1866 - 780 pages
...winter months, something of the same mind as the gentleman in the "Beggars' Opera," who affirmed, " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." 58 59 aren't allowed to have harems in England, don't you think so I" It is a great mistake making... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 300 pages
...British cheers for Admiral Napier. Huzza, huzza, &c. HOW HAPPY COULD I BE WITH EITHEE. [JoHN GAY.] How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! But while yen thus tease me together, To neither one word can I say. THE SAILOR'S LADY. s CUNNINGHAM.]... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 518 pages
...attention to them both. But I don't believe he cared for either of them, for he used to laugh and sing, How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away. From the 'Beggar's Opera,' you know, my dear; and he went away without marrying either of them. Let... | |
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