 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1924 - 132 pages
...you take a husband of your friends' choosing? MRS. MAL. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman; and...poor dear uncle before marriage as if he'd been a blackamoor—and yet, miss, you are sensible what a wife I made ! And when it pleased Heaven to release... | |
 | 1925 - 616 pages
...choice you have made would be my aversion. Mrs. Mai. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman; and...safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. /«/. Adieu! I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage as if he had been a blackamoor... | |
 | John Marshall Gest - 1925 - 728 pages
...Continent ; yet this alone need not have blasted it, as Mrs. Malaprop said to Lydia Languish in The Rivals, "I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage as if he had been a black-a-moor — and yet, Miss, you are sensible what a wife I made!" It is the combination,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1926 - 398 pages
...choice you have made would be my aversion". Mrs. Mai. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion ? They don't become a young woman ; and...and when it pleased Heaven to release me from him, 'ti»unknown what tears I shed ! — But suppose we were going to give you another choice, will you... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1926 - 432 pages
...choice you have made would be my aversion. Mrs. Mai. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman ; and...as if he'd been a blackamoor — and yet, miss, you arc sensible what a wife I made ! — and when it pleased Heaven to release me from him, 'tis unknown... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 pages
...made would be my aversion. Mrs. M. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion?—they don't become a young woman; and you ought to know,...blackamoor; and yet, miss, you are sensible what a wife I made!—and when it pleased heaven to release me from him, 'tis unknown what tears I shed. But suppose... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...says, "What have you to do with your likings and your preferences, child? Depend upon it, it is safest to begin with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle like a blackamoor before we were married; and yet, you know, my dear, what a good wife I made him."... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1928 - 390 pages
...choice you have made would be my aversion. Mrs. Mal. What business have you, Miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman ; and...you are sensible what a wife I made! — and when it pleas'd heaven to release me from him, 'tis unknown what tears I shed ! — But suppose we were going... | |
 | Katharine Kester - 1937 - 268 pages
...choice you have made would be my aversion. MRS. MALAPROP. What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman; and...with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor uncle before marriage as if he'd been a blackamoor — and yet, miss, you are sensible what a wife... | |
 | James Morwood, David Crane - 1995 - 226 pages
...problem in producing Sheridan: the racist and anti-Semitic epithets mouthed by fools and heroes alike. 'I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage as if he'd been a black-a-moor,' proclaims Mrs Malaprop (i.ii. 174-5); ltne 'a<ty sna'l be as ugly as I choose . . . she shall have... | |
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What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman; and you ought to know, that as both always wear off, 'tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage... 
