1969
| Written in 1728 by the English poet and dramatist, The Beggar's Opera was set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. It has had an influence on all later British stage comedies, and on nineteenth century British comic opera (notably Gilbert and Sullivan) - but it is above all the ancestor of the modern musical. |
2004
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2004
| Thus far our Riots with Success are crown'd, Have found no stop, or what they found o'ercame; In vain th' embattell'd Watch in deep array, Against our Rage oppose their lifted Poles; Through Poles we rush triumphant, Watchman rolls On Watchman; while their Lanthorns kick'd aloft. |
2004
| THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. What do I see? No. Fancy mocks my eyes, And bids the dear deluding vision rise. 'Tis she. My springing heart her presence feels. See, prostrate Lycidas before thee kneels. |
2004
| NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. Orba. This over-zeal perhaps may give offence, the Prince is treated like no common slave. Phraortes strives to lessen his affliction, Nor would he add a sigh to his distresses: Astarbe too will talk to him whole hours With all the tender manners of her sex. |
2004
| Trapes. There it is now! Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? If the necessaries of life would have satisfy'd such a poor body as me, to be sure I had never come to mend my fortune to the Plantations. Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities. We never stint our Expence to our own fortunes, but are miserable, if we do not live up to the profuseness of our neighbours. |
2004
| Art. I never observ'd any thing but those little Liberties that Girls of her Age will take, when they are among themselves. --Perhaps those particular Distinctions the Princesses shew her, may have made her too familiar.--I am not, Madam, an Advocate for her Behaviour. |
2003
| NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. Bart. I find you have the Use of your Reason when your Wife is not by; consider yourself as a Man, and consider her as a Woman, and you may have it then too.--You were born to Freedom, and would you seek to make yourself a Slave? You were born to Fortune, and would you stoop to make yourself a Beggar? For of all Beggars, I look upon a Minister's Follower to be the meanest. |
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