10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CURTAIN LECTURE»
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curtain lecture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts
popular fictions of the curtain lecture, Emilia, oblivious to her husband's demand,
plows on, warming to the topic: "O fie upon them ["such companions"]! Some such
squire he was / That turned your wit the seamy side without, / And made you to ...
Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford, 2008
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
C381 Curtain lecture c1725 Byrd Another Secret Diary 452: Nor can Furistante
well avoid being a vixen and a Termagant, yea and exceeding loud in her
Curtain lectures, 1728 Dividing Line 288: No more rest all night than a poor
Husband ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
Curtain-lecture, n.s. [from curtain and lecture.'] A reproof given by a wife to her
husband in bed. What endless brawls by wives are bred ? The curtain-lecture
makes a mournful bed. Dryden, Juv. She ought to exert the authority of the curtain
- ...
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The Poems of J.O.T.: Consisting of Songs, Satire and ...
THE CURTAIN LECTURE. Of all the fiends of haggard fate, A curtain lecture most
1 hate ; It comes upon us unprepared, Asleep, unconscious, off our guard —
Draw me a tooth, my jaw-hone fracture, But take away a curtain lecture. When in
the ...
5
Hollowhill farm, a novel
CHAPTER I. A CURTAIN LECTURE. CURTAIN lecture, in its strict integrity,
should proceed from wedded lips. This has been, from time immemorial, the
accepted signification of the above term. A curtain lecture. Oh fearful sound !
redolent of "I ...
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the ...
legend reads: “The wife a wondrous racket meanes to keepe,/Whilest Husband
seemes to sleepe but does not sleepe:/But she might full so well her Lecture
smother,/For ent'ring one Eare it goes out at t'other.” If the curtain lecture may
justly be ...
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British theatre, comprising tragedies, comedies, operas, and ...
'Tis in vain to talk to you ; but remember I have a curtain-lecture ') for you, you
disobedient, headstrong brute. Sir P. No, 'tis because I won't be headstrong,
because I won't be a brute, and have my head fortified, that I am thus
exasperated.
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IRON to be curtains for someone (ffl] (SAM) ft)$Ki!Sg ; ^ B EJIJ (It seems to be ...
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British Theatre, Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and ...
[Aside] Well, my lady, march on; I will fight under you then : I am convinced, as far
as passion will permit [Sir Paul and Lady Pliant come up to Mellefont. l) Til □
dreadful thins for a man to be subject to the threats of a curtain-lecture ; but what
a ...
CURTAIN LECTURE. A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to
read him a curtain lecture. CURTEZAN. A prostitute. CUSHION. He has
deservedthe cushion; a saying of one whose wife is brought to bed of a boy:
implying, that ...
John Camden Hotten, Francis Grose, Ambrose Bierce, 2014
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CURTAIN LECTURE»
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11 Weird Words/Phrases You Should Be Using
So antejentacular (before breakfast) is in the chapter for 7 AM, and curtain lecture (a telling-off given by a wife to her husband in bed) is saved ... «Huffington Post, Oct 13»
Commentary: At Pennsylvania Society, indulgence in no short supply
The reception room was abuzz as a few hundred attendees milled in and out of a closed-curtain lecture hall where Gov. Tom Corbett, Democrat ... «Pennsylvania Independent, Dec 12»
Theater Talkback: In Protest of Pre-Show Announcements
Plus, it spares me something I never expect at the theater — a pre-curtain lecture. How do you feel about pre-show announcements at the ... «New York Times, Jul 11»
Read it and swoon: love by the book
discovered that a 'nincompoop' is a henpecked husband, and that what men feared most was a 'curtain lecture': what happens when a wife ... «Daily Mail, Feb 09»
What are some distinctive American elements in "Rip Van Winkle"?
... tempers doubtless are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domes tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in ... «eNotes, Oct 08»
The Divider
Impatient for her critique, he opens and closes the bed curtains, a scene that's a nice play on the eighteenth-century phrase “curtain lecture” (a ... «New Yorker, Mar 08»
Memoirs of a Rebellious Volunteer Working for Mother Teresa
Brother Zachary delivers a curtain lecture before we retire. Last night he told the tale of a young man arrested for thieving, about to be carted off ... «CounterPunch, Sep 07»
