Word: lovesick
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Home went this, Swedish, chorus dame. In lovesick hopeless desperation. To save her brother's youthful name She would not give an explanation. The Ralstons find they've done her wrong, and their proud dignity unbending, Must I prolong this silly song? There is, do tell, a happy ending...
...Dobson, "the moralist had moralized; from his youth--nay from his childhood--this letter-writer had written letters, from his youth this supreme delineator of the other sex had been the confidant and counsellor of women. In his boyhood he was secretary-general to all the lovesick girls of his neighborhood; at of even he addressed a hortatory epistle, stuffed with tests to a scandalizing widow; and whenever it was possible, to correspond with any one, he was as 'corresponding' as even Horace Walpole could have desired." At the age of 50, he corresponded with the world in Pamela...
...watching this capsule review of one of the best of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was produced at the tiny Provincetown Playhouse where three's a crowd on the stage and where the auditorium has all the lofty spaciousness of a doll's house. Necessarily, therefore, the "20 lovesick maidens we" of the opening chorus were reduced to ten, the dragoons enlistment was meagre, the orchestra minute and the vocal acrobatics tempered and discreet. Adding these effects together, it was the impression of the auditors that the Provincetown Patience was too little of a good thing...
...moonstruck man, a poet, a mad man, a lovesick lad and a shepherd boy well used to lonely spaces set out with Alvaric then on his second quest, which was a weary one. Elfland had ebbed away, its King being fearful of Alvaric's enchanted sword. But Alvaric could not rest for love of Lirazel, and through long years that crazed company wandered the world's ends...
...real triumph of the evening, however, is made by Houston Richards in the role of Bobby Metcalf, the lovesick victim of his lady's caprices. As we remember the original performance, we laughed at Bobby but our sympathies were not particularly touched. Houston Richarda's Bobby, on the other hand, stirred in us the hope that the ending has been changed since we had seen the play before so that Bobby might get the girls after...