Androcles and the Lion: Overruled; Pygmalion, Volumen10Brentano's, 1916 - 224 páginas Three works by the famous twentieth-century British playwright. |
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Términos y frases comunes
aint ANDROCLES Baptist Barabbas become believe Caesar Call Boy cant CAPTAIN CENTURION Christ Christian Church Clara Colonel Pickering comes Covent Garden daughter dear death didnt disciples divine doctrine doesnt DOOLITTLE door EDITOR Eliza Emperor EYNSFORD HILL faith feel FERROVIUS FLOWER GIRL Freddy gentleman give gladiators goes Good-bye gospels Governor GREGORY hand havnt heaven Henry HIGGINS rising Higgins's human husband isnt Jesus Jews John John Barleycorn JUNO lady LAVINIA LENTULUS lion Lisson Grove live LIZA look Luke LUNN marriage married matter Matthew mean MEGAERA mind miracles Miss Doolittle modern moral mother never NOTE TAKER oughtnt PARLOR-MAID PEARCE person PICKERING poor Pygmalion religion Retiarius Salvationist Second Coming shew silly sits slippers sort soul SPINTHO story talk tell thing throw tion told turn whilst wife woman women wont wouldnt youll youve
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Página 124 - Thats the sort of thing I do for commercial millionaires. And on the profits of it I do genuine scientific work in phonetics, and a little as a poet on Miltonic lines. The Gentleman. I am myself a student of Indian dialects; and — The Note Taker (eagerly) Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the author of Spoken Sanscrit? The Gentleman. lam Colonel Pickering. Who are you? The Note Taker. Henry Higgins, author of Higgins's Universal Alphabet.
Página xliii - Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
Página lxxxv - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him ; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Página 178 - HIGGINS [in despairing wrath outside] What the devil have I done with my slippers? [He appears at the door]. LIZA [snatching up the slippers, and hurling them at him one after the other with all her force] There are your slippers. And there. Take your slippers; and may you never have a day's luck with them ! HIGGINS [astounded] What on earth — ! [He comes to her].
Página 196 - You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
Página 128 - He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly and loudly, and requiring almost as much watching to keep him out of unintended mischief. His manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good humor to stormy petulance when anything goes wrong; but he is so entirely frank and void of malice that he remains likeable even in his least reasonable moments.
Página 109 - Consequently no man can teach himself what it should sound like from reading it; and it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
Página 134 - I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as anything. We'll start to-day: now! this moment! Take her away and clean her, Mrs Pearce. Monkey Brand, if it wont come off any other way. Is there a good fire in the kitchen ? MRS PEARCE [protesting]. Yes ; but — HIGGINS [storming on] Take all her clothes off and burn them. Ring up Whiteley or somebody for new ones. Wrap her up in brown paper til they come. LIZA. Youre no gentleman, youre not, to talk of such things. I'ma good girl, I am ; and I know what...
Página 141 - I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and youre driving at another.
Página 149 - I'm not so set on having her back home again but what I might be open to an arrangement. Regarded in the light of a young woman, shes a fine handsome girl.
Referencias a este libro
Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade of Linguistic Revolt Alette Olin Hill Sin vista previa disponible - 1986 |