Mermaid Series - The Complete Plays of Richard Steele

The Complete Plays of Richard Steele

Edited by G. A. Aitken

The Funeral - The Lying Lover - The Tender Husband - The Conscious Lovers - The School of Action - The Gentleman

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    He is one of those that deserve very well, but are very awkward at putting their Talents within the Observation of such as should take Notice of them.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
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    He plays o’the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    My first debate in high school—”Resolved: Girls are no good”—and I won!
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    If I never praised or flattered, I never belyed [sic] or contradicted them.
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)