 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...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. Newbery, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...formance to you," he said, " 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." * * Boswell is good enough to remark on this : " Goldsmith, though his vanity " often excited him to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...slight perfoitnance 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...mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit maj' be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 396 pages
...as myself. It may do me some honor to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intitnacv with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred to Mr. Newbery, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...may do me some honour to " inform the publie, that I have lived many years in intimacy " with yon. It may serve the interests of mankind also to " inform...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." * * Boswell is good enough to remark on this : ' ' Goldsmith, though his vanity " often excited him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
...not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that 1 have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may...mankind, also, to inform them, that the greatest wit may he found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...you as myself. It may do me some honor to inform the puhlie, that I have lived many years in intimaey with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...not mean so much to compliment you * ' as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, EE 2 "that I have lived many years in intimacy with you....character, without impairing the " most unaffected piety." CHAPTEE XV. THE SHADOW AND THE SUNSHINE. 1773. ONE dark shadow fell upon Goldsmith in the midst of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...slight performance to yon, 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...also, to inform them, that the greatest wit may be fouud in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason to... | |
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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,... 
