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" How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away! "
The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 388
1812
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 49

1999 - 604 pages
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Studies in Criticism and Aest

Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...man who, with an ingratiating shrug, grins at the spectator mischievously, and seems to be saying: "How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!" Capturing that force of expression which made Garrick unique is what makes Reynolds unique. One need...
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James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love

Nancy Rose Marshall, Malcolm Warner, Yale Center for British Art, Musée du Québec, Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 1999 - 216 pages
...present etching after that painting. Its title is from an air in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728): "How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away!" Examining the differences between the two images highlights what was disturbingly unconventional about...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1156 pages
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Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite

David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray - 2000 - 288 pages
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Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park

Paul A. Shackel - 2000 - 232 pages
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Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy In Six Acts

John Keane - 2008 - 544 pages
...and Lucy subsequently do battle for the affection of the swashbuckling Macheath, who shows no remorse ('How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!') as he makes his escape from prison. Havel's emplotment of The Beggar's Opera runs a different course....
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Minding Matter: And Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry

Nicholas Rescher - 2001 - 164 pages
...sort of loss. We must acknowledge the deep and wide truth of John Gay's couplet in the Beggar's Opera: How happy could I be with either? Were t'other dear charmer away! We cannot escape the exclusionary nature of choice—to opt for more of our desideratum is ipso facto...
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Collins Quotation Finder

2001 - 838 pages
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Operetta: A Theatrical History

Richard Traubner - 2003 - 511 pages
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