 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,...  The Orphan: Or, The Unhappy Marriage. A Tragedy - Стр. 3авторы: Thomas Otway - 1797 - Страниц: 109Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - Страниц: 402
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred to Mr. Newbery, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - Страниц: 326
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaflected piety.—BOSWELL. 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - Страниц: 768
...them in turn to taste us." — Good-natured Man. DEDICATION of "Slie Stoops to Conquer," to Johnson. " I have particularly reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental, was very dangerous, and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Страниц: 500
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with yon. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; ' and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Страниц: 524
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ;' and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Страниц: 348
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; and Mr Colman,~wKo savv tins piece... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Страниц: 524
...intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit maj' be found in a character, without impairing the most...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; ' and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - Страниц: 572
...publie, that I have lived many years in intimacy " with yon. It may serve the interests of mankind also to " inform them, that the greatest wit may be...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." * * Boswell is good enough to remark on this : ' ' Goldsmith, though his vanity " often excited him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - Страниц: 564
...the puhlie, that I have lived many years in intimaey with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a eharaeter, without impairing the most unaffeeted piety. I have, partieularly, reason to thank you for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - Страниц: 582
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them that the greatest wit may be found...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; and Mr. Colman, -who saw this piece... | |
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