 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1883 - Страниц: 166
...you," said Goldsmith, "I do not mean so much to compliment " you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public that I have lived " many years...character without impairing the "most unaffected piety." What could be better expressed? Pen in hand, as one here sees, Goldy could do anything of this kind... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - Страниц: 634
...slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." ' See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - Страниц: 634
...slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." down every thing that you remember, for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - Страниц: 312
...Stoops to Conquer ' to Johnson, neatly sums up the matter : ' It may serve the interests of society to inform them that the greatest wit may be found...character without impairing the most unaffected piety.' It would, however, be a grave error to conclude the shortest paper on Johnson without a special reference... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - Страниц: 572
...slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." Ich schliesse dieses Kapitel mit den Worten Henry Necle's (Lectures on English Dramatic Poets): "His... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - Страниц: 608
...immediately put to press, and dedicated to Johnson in the following grateful and affectionate terms: " In inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred to Mr. Newberry, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1886 - Страниц: 586
...performance to you," he wrote, " I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public that I have lived many years...character without impairing the most unaffected piety." It seemed as if sentimental comedy had now received its death-blow. The journals •teemed with squibs... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1886 - Страниц: 340
...performance to you," he wrote, " I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public that I have lived many years...character without impairing the most unaffected piety." Amongst the general applause which greeted the comedy, two dissenting voices were heard. These proceeded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - Страниц: 254
...' I do not mean,' wrote Goldsmith, ' so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.' His gains from She Stoops to Conquer were considerable ; but by this time his affairs had reached a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - Страниц: 608
...I do not mean so much to compliment you, as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the publick, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you....character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." could not answer, nor have I found any one else who could. What is the reason that women servants,... | |
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By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them,... 
