...— you are annoyed, Herbert, I can see. Did the Misses Banhain weary you ? Or are yx>u thinking ? ' How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away.' Suppose you toss up." " Hang the Banhams '." exclaimed Herbert pettishly. " For shame, Herbert ! You...

...— you are annoyed, Herbert, I can see. Did the Misses Banham weary you ? Or are you thinking ? " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." Suppose you toss up." " Hang the Banhams \" exclaimed Herbert pettishly. " For shame, Herbert ! You...

...On viewing Mr. James Little's first- and second-prize Aged Bulls, one might well have exclaimed, " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away !" They were, beyond question, a magnificent pair, standing on neat short legs, and covered all over...

...gentle maid, and before him a savoury pullet, might well, with his friend Macheath, have sung — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ;" while sundry cavaliers were courting the good graces of their Juliets, by helping them freely to...

...disgraceful light in which he conceived he must appear in her sight. He could not say with Macheath — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ;•' for just then he was truly miserable with both, and could bear the company of neither. At length,...

...more, I cannot like her half so well as Fanny. Fair damsels ! I will not sing with Macheath—. t; How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away," ' «• since 1 mean for the present to be happy, even while I reject ye both— "I wili not my unhoused...

...a-kimbo, and sticking the other out like the spout of a tea-kettle, he sung — " How happy could I he with either, Were t'other dear charmer away; But while...you thus teaze me together, To neither a word will I tay." "Why that's what you used tosingupon the siege," exclaimed Ann, »' and now I find you are the...

...two at once !" and he half hummed through his teeth the air then in its zenith of popularity : — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" " Nay," said Lady Marchmont, " we trust that our petition will not be so very outrageous, either....

...he were preparing his mistress for what was impending ; and also sometimes in the mood of saying, " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" In looking forward to the terms of their future intercourse, the husband of "Bonnie Jean" says,...

...Stewart), b. at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, 1795; d. in London, 1s35. 1 48 Scene from the Beggar's Opera. " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away !" Macheath in prison, seated at a table, with bottles and glasses, in a rakish, reckless attitude;...