 I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.  The Critic: Or, A Tragedy Rehearsed: a Farce - 47 페이지저자: Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1897 - 94 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 322 페이지
...what do you think I open with ? Sneer. Faith, I can't guess. Puff. A clock. Hark ! [Clock strikes.] I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dan. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Isn't that odd, though... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 710 페이지
...I open with? Sueir. Faith, 1 can't guess. Puff. A clock, ilark^! [Clock strtkes.]l ope\i withaclock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience : it also marks the time, which is luur o'clock in the morning, and saves a desrriptinii of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 페이지
...readers have frequent occasion to lament that she did not follow the example of Mr Puffin the play, " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the moming, and saves a description of the riling sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1816 - 538 페이지
...readers have frequent occasion to lament that she did not follow the example of Mr Puff in the play, " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 페이지
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c.of Scotland, with the Contemplative Angler,"... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 430 페이지
...think I open with ? Sneer. Faith, I can't guess — Puff. A clock— Hark! — [Clock strikes.'] — I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dangle. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is 'nt that odd though... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 페이지
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c. of Scotland, with the Contemplative... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1825 - 78 페이지
...with ? Sneer. I cannot guess — Puff. A clock— Sneer. A clock ! Puff". Hark ! — [Clock strikes'] I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...audience — it also marks the time, which is four in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern... | |
 | 1827 - 378 페이지
...Sneer. Faith, I can't guess— Puff. A clock. Sneer. A clock ! Puff. Hark!— [Clock itriket four.] I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention...a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dan. But, pray, are the centinela to be asleep ? Puff'. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is'nt that odd though,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1830 - 390 페이지
...signifies Black Samuel.Nor are we sorry that they arrived at night, since, as Puff says in the Critic, ' it saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the Eastern hemisphere.' The host received his guests very civilly at the door, with his hands in his breeches' pockets. Not... | |
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