...not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute ; No more. Sti. Ham. in. 3. 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, Beggar's Opera, n. 2. Never...

...aforementioned 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 !" " It is ' I'embarras des richessesj isn't it, George ?" Louisa had said to him that very morning,...

...with you, Harrifield, about spending it; but what can I do with you both together ?" " It is a case of how happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away," replied Harrifield; "and as it is impossible for Eavel to raise money for me, I shall vacate the field...

...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...

...themselves at a little distance on each side of him, drawing nearer and nearer as they speak. DOCTOE. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! FIEST LADY. Sweet Doctor, I'm sure I should please you. SECOND LADY. Sweet Doctor, I'm sure I'd obey....

...Boreal neighbourhood with entire carcases of antediluvial elephants entombed in a conglomerate H " How happy could I be with either Were t'other dear charmer away ! " For although they reject the drift theory for no other reason that we can see than that it had...

...He, too, won the warm esteem of Mary Philipse, and no doubt she was perplexed with the feeling — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away I" Washington was "away," and the mutual friend sent him word, in the course of a few months, that...

...at gallant Boots, shows her white teeth, and exit. Boots is alone. Boots soliloquizes once more. " How happy could I be with either, were 'tother. dear charmer away." His quandary has returned — he cannot make up his mind. If he marries Fanny he will hanker after...

...Shuffler had said. " So I would, too, if there weren'ta pair of you, and bigamy contrary to law. ' How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away.' But," I continued, turning to Lady Dasher, with an assumption of easy indifference which I found it...

...are so contradictory that we are perforce reminded of the opening lines of Macheath's ballad — " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." Now that the Palatine records are removed from Lancaster to London to facilitate reference, the perplexing...