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"He is very early from the theater; I wonder he should come home without staying for the farce."
The performances, which consisted of a comedy and farce took place in the afternoon, and ended at dusk.
You need never have been either a farce or a tragedy, but just a decent, simple, commonplace woman like me.
Besides several tragedies, he wrote the farce of "Two Strings to your Bow," and "Roman Portraits," a poem.
Altogether, one might have said that, if he were going in for farce, he was appropriately made up for it.
He did call these visions farces, now they are something beyond the power of human nature to explain.
A capital collection of the spiciest comic dialogs, comedies and farces by the best known writers in America.
And the play, the farce which she just enacted before me in the midst of most serious matters!
I do not continue the farce of saying my niece; she is not more than a distant relative of mine.
The laughter caused by this farce had scarcely died away when the serious part of the performance began.
Presently it appeared that they were alone, and the farce was hardly kept up through the next day.
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
The way these duties of the inspectors are performed makes it a perfect farce, at least on most occasions.
It is well when this so-called administration of justice ends as a monstrous farce and not as a tragedy.
The entire concert presented itself as a grotesque farce, of which she as its creator ought to be ashamed.
The fun of the farce differed from that of most farces in depending less upon situations than upon dialogue.
It appeared somewhat like a farce to him, and yet their trick was one that has often been played.
I begged sarcastically to know whether he could tell me if we were engaged in a farce or in a tragedy.
Then there was a farce, how conceived and by what kind of author I was puzzled to make out.
They have invented a method of wearing the hair which makes the removal of the hat a mere farce.
And on that, this business of pouring out his tea, of accepting his cakes, turned to sorriest of farces.
Gogol not only acted on the suggestion, but instead of a mere farce, he produced a comedy of manners.
The dark, mysterious hint of his persecution by the police was a necessary culmination to the little farce.
"It were a good motive for a roaring farce, but I must consider the dignity of the name I bear."
Some of them have very small congregations, and every one confesses it is a perfect farce to keep them open.
The most grotesque farce in the name of religion is sure to find believers, and they soon gathered about Smith.
Really, my dear, that is a serious charge to bring against one of the leading characters in a magazine farce.
The usual performances at the theater consist of a play and farce; with singing, sometimes, between the acts.
His first political convention, he tells us in his Confessions, showed him that representative government was a farce.
The Countess had certainly, disappointed Old Tom's farce, in a measure; and he expressed himself puzzled by her.
For these men, especially if they had held fairly good positions at home, transportation was almost a farce.
It came into the midst of his misery like a scrap of farce to relieve his strained bosom by laughter.
Our company, as well as many another, is something of a farce when it comes to being a "mining company."
Then the assistant physician entered with three attendants, including the two who had figured in my farce.
"Really, Timothy, this is a good farce; come, sit down, and help me to finish this bottle of wine."
She laughed herself quite breathless over the absurd situations of the farce, but father was not so easily satisfied.
Here, if there was anything in what had lately reached him, life was a farce, a hideous hollow farce.
"This is a farce," said he, "and I'm not going to be fool enough to take part in it any longer."
"In the difference of tragedy, comedy, and farce itself, there can be no determination but by the taste."
At its best the late nineteenth century reminds one of a sentimental farce, at its worst of a heartless joke.
The farce I also did as a sort of practical joke, for Harley, whom I have known a long time.
Lemon and I did every conceivable absurdity, I think, in the farce; and they never left off laughing.
It is a compliment, and should be proof to you that my men know the marriage ceremony was no farce.
The play was a witty farce, and Belinda was supposedly one of the cleverest and most amusing characters.
Accordingly, we advise them to see farces or lively comedy, and we try to pick out cheerful nurses for them.
It was immediately obvious, there at the craft's heart, that this was no farce, at least not a deliberate one.
Maddison Morton's farces, and laugh till the tears run down our cheek at the comedian who enacts them?
To the squire Alvin could never be a tragic figure; he belonged on the stage of comedy or broad farce.
They found that it was no farce but real genuine tragedy, in which they were to act an important part.
"By all means do it properly, though I cannot see why we should trouble about such a farce as this."
And here I am forced to play a part in some vulgar farce, to play the part of a stage property!
Livingstone is a well-drawn character; so well, so naturally painted, that he hardly deserves to be the hero of a farce.
On one special evening she held the book during the performance of the old farce of "Who's the Dupe?"
The footmen, highly offended at the representation of a farce reflecting on their fraternity, resolved to prevent its repetition.
She owes it to me, if not to herself, to put an end to the farce before she turns to tragedy.
This kind of farce so much pleased my master, that he made me repeat it as often as he found opportunity.
I was amused at the farce played before me, but disgusted with the actors, and resolved to withdraw myself.
Wherefore he kept silence, awaited events, and went to sleep, wondering whether a farce or tragedy was being played.
"That man," I thought, "is fit to be the hero of a tragedy, and he is wasting himself on a farce."
This Amendment was passed by the friends of freedom to keep the Thirteenth Amendment from being a mere farce.
He wanted to talk trifles, just as he preferred to see a musical comedy or a farce when they went out.
The success of his little farce at Sadler's Wells led to his writing three more pieces for that theater.
And is our public likely to muster the slightest taste for comic analysis that does not tumble to farce?
Far more important are his comedies and farces, which latter won for him the title of the Portuguese Plautus.
Young's life, which you may call (if you please) a second part of the farce of the 'Sham Doctor.'
The attorneys for the People had not been anxious enough to be interested, and looked upon the application as a farce.
A statute of bankruptcy at last drops the curtain, and thus ends the farce before the tragedy is begun.
The eminent counsel of the prisoners took the cue from their clients, and treated the proceedings as a farce.
To found society upon a farce is to lower those ideals by which, as much as by bread, a nation lives.
Evidently, it wasn't waiting to see what the Solar System fleet would do when the farce was made known.
There was more laughter between the lines of that book than in a thousand farces by men of no genius.
Perhaps, after all, he had looked upon the whole affair, not as a solemn engagement, but as a childish farce.
We're just simply sorry that a poor idea of a farce keeps dear old Dick from being with us tonight.
"Now we will lock up; the farce is played out, and you can send your key to Monsieur the Mayor."
He took a long breath of determination, and again grinned at the farce he was playing for his own benefit.
As a matter of experience, when we got beyond Miss Corner we took to farces, and found them very successful.
In the latter, which was a musical farce, a new performer was to come out of whom report spoke highly.
My lady and gentleman each declared to me and others that it was like the subject of a roaring farce.
When little more than a boy he had produced perhaps thirty farces, and in 1808 gave birth to a novel.
Soon, however, I was forced to laugh, and to say to myself, this farce is as old as the world!
Just a glimmering suspicion dawned upon her mind of the monstrous farce we human beings figure in at life's bidding.
Would our wits get us out of this cursed hole, or must we suffer the tragic farce to the end?
He felt he had been a complete fool, that the whole scene had been a farce of the first water.
Would the new play do the trick, would "real life" serve him better than the humors of farce?
You will find that half the beauty and the farce of old-time legend lies in the bare sound of it.
What can you think of a people, where their very farces are religious, and where they are so religiously received?
The broader the comedy, the nearer it approaches to the farce, the more natural does the acting appear to me.
We will mention a few of them that are good; the old comedies and farces are well known to all.
After the concerts, an excellent farce was acted, and the entertainment was concluded by dancers of both sexes.
As long as I have to act, what you call my farce, I think I should do so as consistently as possible.
His first employment was connected with the stage, and his business was to assist the writers of farces.
His chief importance lies in the opportunities he gives Mr Kipling for indulging his joyful gift for pure farce.
Another scene was enacted, but, unlike the popular mode of theatrical procedure, the farce was followed by a tragedy.
I know one person at least, who would rather be the author of an unsuccessful farce than of a successful tragedy.
Life was but a farce, and the better part was to play it out as a farce, in mere sensual enjoyment.
Now, since this world began, dear reader, when did any one of us ever hear of such a farce as this?
And then he laughed in sheer desperation at the farce-tragedy to which the life of a brave people had been reduced.
I knew it was a farce to seek an explanation, for, whatever it might be, I was ready to accept it.
Roll the rest of the paste and place it over the farce; press edges together and between each ball.
Of course that is a mere farce, and the country will declare for Victor Emmanuel by a thousand votes to one.