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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... town fops and bullies; his credulity made it easy for swindlers to impo'se on him. He was glad indeed to return to his manor as soon as possible, carrying with him an aversion towards London and its inhabitants to which he adhered to the end of his life. In the character of Sir Mannerly Crowne has given a picture of one of those country lords which is not all together untrue, although it may be somewhat overcharged. His man Booby is a clown such as we laugh at in the circus nowadays. But in the 17th Century a Cumberland lord may possibly have employed such a clown for his valet. The characters of Lord Drybone and Betty are Restoration types. We would somewhat wonder how an avowed prostitute came to associate with ladies of quality, but we must not forget that in those days the standart of morality was low even among ladies, and that it would have been difficult to draw an exact line between those women that were moral and those that were immoral. Besides Lady Castlemaine, Mrs. Stewart and other court prostitutes moved daily among the best society. The English ladies of the Restoration time were not as particular as they are in our own enlightened times. The scene in which Ramble brings a serenade to Betty is a close imitation of the 5th scene of Moliere's comedy "Le Sicilien ou 1'amour peintre." In the French comedy we have Don Pedre, his slave Isidore, Adraste and his servant Halt. In the English comedy the persons are Lord Drybone, Betty, Mr. Ramble and his servant Merry. In the French comedy, Hali is sent by his master to bring a serenade to the fair slave of Don Pedre; in the English play Merry has the same mission, he is to bring the musiciens before the house of Lord Drybone. "Tis a very dark night! there's not light enough to shew me the end of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154540802
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154540804
  • Publisher Date: 13 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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