 | John Gay - 1770 - Počet stránok 372
...fever e ; Sofa"ve a ivretched ivife ! For For on the rope that han%s my dear, Depends poor ?o\\fsLife. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, huffy,...obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for fuch an opportunity. Polly. What is a jointure, what is widowhood to me? I know my heart, I cannot... | |
 | John Gay - 1772 - Počet stránok 386
...her. AIR XII. Now ponder well, y$ parents dear. Polly. Ob, pcnifer well ! he not fevere ; N Sofave a wretched 'wife ! For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly'j life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, hufly, obliges you to hang him. What would... | |
 | John Gay - 1772 - Počet stránok 346
...the rope that hang! my dear, Depends poor Polly 's life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parent?, huffy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for fuch an opportunity ! Polly. What is a jointure, what is widowhood to me ? I know my heart. I cannot... | |
 | John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - Počet stránok 498
....•?-••••-• - ••. AIR. Now ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh ponder well I be not severe ; So save a wretched wife ; for on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly 's life. Mrs. Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - Počet stránok 612
...have mifcarricd and been damned, till Polly fung in a mod tender and affecting manner the words, " For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life." t " This is the air, that is fiid irrefiftibly to have conquered the laver who afterwards man led her."... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - Počet stránok 630
...her. AIR. — A'uzu, ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Olí, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife; For, on the rope, that hangs my dear,...Polly's life. Mrs Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for such an opportunity ! Pulli/. What... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 630
...her. AIR. — NOK, ponder reell, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife ; For, on the rope, that hangs my...Polly's life. Mrs Peach. But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife give for such an opportunity ! Polly. What is... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 626
...her. AIR. — Koie, ponder well, ye parents dear. Polly. Oh, ponder well ! be not severe ; To save a wretched wife; For, on the rope, that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life. • Mrt Peach. But your duty to ynur parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a wife... | |
 | William Cook - 1804 - Počet stránok 468
...Polly aung the following address to her father: \ • M " Oh! ponder well — toe not severe; So save a wretched wife ! For on the rope that hangs my dear, Depends poor Polly's life." • [ . - / We shall close the account of this celebrated character with the following eulogium given... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - Počet stránok 538
...innocence, does more public fervice than all the Minifters of ftate from Adam to Walpole, and fo adieu. " For on the rope that hangs my dear, " Depends poor Polly's life." This is the Air that is faid irrefiftibly to have conquered the Lover who afterwards married her. WARTON.... | |
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Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched Wife ! For on the Rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's Life. 
