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Anti-Christ is the name they 'blasphemously' apply to the actual 'old chimera of a Pope. Puseyite Divines treat his Holiness with more tenderness, but even they boggle at his infallibility, and seem to occupy a position between the rival churches of Rome and England analogous to that of Captain Macheath when singing between two favourite doxies
Far, far exceeding the bonhomie of Macheath, the Duke could not resist remembering that, had it been his fortune to have lived in the land in which his historiographer will soon be wandering; in short, to have been a pacha instead of a peer, he might have married all three. A prettier fellow and three prettier women had never met since the immortal incident of Ida.
Confusion! the pistol missed fire. He aimed the second, and again no report followed! "Some scoundrel has been tampering with these," says Mr Weston, aghast. "Come," says Captain Macheath, "come, your " But the next word the fellow spoke was a frightful oath; for I took out my little pistol, which was full of shot, and fired it into his face.
The spirit of chivalry forsake me for ever, when I forget thy singing the song of Macheath, which declares that he might be happy with either, situated between those two ancient spinsters when I forget the inimitable formal love which thou didst make, turning now to the one, and now to the other, with that Malvolian smile as if Cervantes, not Gay, had written it for his hero; and as if thousands of periods must revolve, before the mirror of courtesy could have given his invidious preference between a pair of so goodly-propertied and meritorious-equal damsels, *
Now you only said so when you found the bells were ringing for that, and not for you. Maurice's observations were not always convenient. Algernon, with much pomp, had caused a horse to be led to the door, for which he had lately paid eighty guineas, and he was expatiating on its merits, when Maurice broke out, 'That's Macheath, the horse that Archie Tritton bought of Mr.
The practical is with them always the antipodes of the ideal; and like other visionaries of a different stamp, they date the Millennium or New Order of Things from the Restoration of the Bourbons. 'Fine words butter no parsnips, says the proverb. 'While you are talking of marrying, I am thinking of hanging, says Captain Macheath.
Arthur Pendennis did not win much money in these transactions with Mr. Bloundell, or indeed gain good of any kind except a knowledge of the odds at hazard, which he might have learned out of books. Captain Macheath had other accomplishments which he exercised for Pen's benefit.
He grew angry, and called out loudly, 'Nay, when you both speak at once, it is intolerable. But checking himself, and softening, he said, 'This one may say, though you ARE ladies. Then he brightened into gay humour, and addressed them in the words of one of the songs in The Beggar's Opera: 'But two at a time there's no mortal can bear. The contrast between Macheath, Polly, and Lucy and Dr.
"Faith, both are bad enough, but Mr. Rich seems bound to him." "Why doesn't he try Tom Walker? When Tom isn't drunk, he sings like an angel." "I know I know. Well, we'll see." But nothing was done, and at the second rehearsal Quin's Captain Macheath was more droningly dismal than ever.
Macheath called on you afterwards you would return the visit!" Even had these speeches been made about the Duchess, and some of them not addressed to her, things might have gone on pretty well. If we quarrelled with all the people who abuse us behind our backs, and began to tear their eyes out as soon as we set ours on them, what a life it would be, and when should we have any quiet?
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