...marriage, husband, that makes it a blemish. PEACHUM. But money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations; there is not a spot or a stain but what...and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for 10 roguery as you imagine. I tell you, wife, I can make this match turn to our advantage. MRS. PEACHUM....

...DICKENS (181 2-70). English novelist. Dick Swivellcr. in The Old Curiosity Shop, ch. 7 ( 1 84 1 ). 7 of ou@! , JOHN GAY (1685-17321. English dramatist. Peachum. in The Beggar's Opera, act I, sc. 9. 8 It contributes...

...further indicated when Peachum consoles his wife: 'But Money, Wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what...not such a Contempt for Roguery as you imagine' (I, ix, 8-12). Personal and social values are systematically displayed in monetarised forms, so that the...

...economist. The Age of Uncertainty, ch. 6 (1977). 15 But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. JOHN GAY, (1685-1732) British dramatist, poet. Peachum, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1, sc. 9 (1728),...

...marriage, husband, that makes it a blemish. PEACHUM. But money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations; there is not a spot or a stain but what...hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. (Peachum includes the audience as he refers to "the world. " The audience, indeed, will find themselves...

...spot or stain, and their experience tells them that rich rogues are a fit company for any gentleman: 'the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine' (Beggar's Opera: £9). On the other hand, their greed hardly surpasses that of other occupations. As...

...alias Walpole ausdrückt, reinigt Geld alles: „[Money] is the true Fuller's earth for reputation, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out" (I, 9). Peachum, Lockit und die Bande spiegeln hierbei das Verhalten der herrschenden Elite. Die Gentlemen,...