 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1888 - 252 pages
...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...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." To the very last Colman maintained his unhopeful attitude, in spite of the steady enthusiasm of the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 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...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." 3 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle /Slate.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 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...that the greatest wit may be found in a character, M'ithout impairing the most unaffected piety." vSoe on account of this learned and respectable gentleman,... | |
 | John Forster - 1871 - 544 pages
...said, " I do not mean so much to compli*' ment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform tho " public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with...character, without impairing " the most unaffected piety. "§ Goldsmith's dedications are perfect models of what that kind of writing should be. * " A party... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...compliment you as inysull. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many ye;irs in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.— BOS WELL. t See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curiuus work on the... | |
 | Calvin Smith Brown - English drama - 1898 - 602 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...performance. The undertaking a comedy, not merely sentimental,1 was very dangerous ; and Mr. Colman,2 who saw this piece in its various stages, always... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 296 pages
...not mean," wrote the grateful author, " 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." To the very last Colman maintained his unhopeful attitude, in spite of the steady enthusiasm of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 pages
...despatch, and dedicated it to Johnson. " In inscribing this slight performance to you," he said, " I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself....a character without impairing the most unaffected piety."1 1 Boswell is good euough to remark on this : " Goldsmith, though his vanity often excited... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - Authors, English - 1900 - 424 pages
...these grateful words : " 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." Contrary to the manager's prognostications, She Stoops to Conquer was an immediate triumph, and Goldsmith's... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...Goldsmith too meant what he said in the dedication of She Stoop* to Conquer. "It may do me some honour to inform the public that I have lived many years...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." Though Johnson was thus rich in friendship, two connexions have still to be noticed which had an exceptional... | |
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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,... 
