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
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - Страниц: 448
...you. It may serve the interests of mankind, also, to inform them, that the greatest wit may be fouud in a character, without impairing the most unaffected...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... | |
| Henry Lea - 1859 - Страниц: 302
...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." It was through Johnson's negotiation with the manager of Covent Garden that it came indeed to be produced.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - Страниц: 618
...the publie, that I have lived many yeari in intimaey 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 unaffeeted piety. I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1859 - Страниц: 856
...old friend Johnson ! " It may serve the interests ot mankind, also, to inform them that the gre.ilot wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." I Jut, whatever hopee or fears, joys or sorrows, attended the baptism of that country parson's eon, it... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - Страниц: 570
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - Страниц: 464
...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 Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - Страниц: 540
...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 unafiected piety. I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1868 - Страниц: 414
...public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also tt inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred to Mr. Newbery, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - Страниц: 276
...the use of schools. London: printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Davies, and L. Davis, 1772." 12m0. greatest wit may be found in a character without impairing the most unaffected piety."25 His triumph, at the success of his comedy, was of short duration. An assault on the publisher... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - Страниц: 1502
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind e was no executioner in the city but the very man...was conducted from the judgment seat, bound with cor undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental was very dangerous ; and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece... | |
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