 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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." 1 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1901 - 500 pages
...performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to iuiorm the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." 9 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the " Middle... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1901 - 214 pages
...Goldsmith too meant what he said in the dedication of She Stoops to Conquer. "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, v itl out impairing the most untffected piety." Though Johnson was thus rich in friendship, two connexions... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 448 pages
...myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public 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.' servants, though obliged to be at the expense of purchasing their own clothes, have much lower wages... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...Goldsmith too meant what he said in the dedication of She Stoops 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 446 pages
...press, -and dedicated to Johnson in the following grateful and affectionate terms : — . "In ascribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." The copyright was transferred to Mr. Newbery, according to agreement, whose profits on the sale of... | |
 | 1903 - 678 pages
...of ' She Stoops to Conquer:' 'By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean to so much compliment you as myself. It may do me some honor...character without impairing the most unaffected piety. ' I repeat, I am all but moved to write these lines of you. It would tell my case at least ; and while... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...performance 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." CHAPTER XV. THE SHADOW AND THE SUNSHINE. 1773. ONE dark shadow fell upon Goldsmith in the midst of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 332 pages
...inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the in- 5 terests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest...partiality to this performance. The undertaking a com- 10 edy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece in its... | |
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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,... 
