 | Thomas Otway - 1797 - 466 pages
...public, that I fia-vc lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of manhind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertahing a Comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous ; and Mr. Cohnan, who saw this piece... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 468 pages
...the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy wi1hyou. It may serve the interests of manhind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be...unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason to tltanh you for your partiality to this performance. The undertahing a Comedy, not merely sentimental,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...I do not-mean EO 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.'' 1773. Johnson observed, that there were very few books v—v—' printed in Scotland before the Union.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...COVENT-GARDEN : FIRST PRINTED IN 1772. Vol. II R DEDICATION. TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. DEAR SIR, B Y inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not...I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your par^ tiality to this performance. The undertaking a Comedy, not merely sentimental, was very dangerous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 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. i I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...performance to you," he says, " 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." Of this play, which made its appearance at Covent-Garden, late in the season, and was very successful,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...not menu so ranch 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...inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a rhsracler, without impairing the most unaffected piety." || See an account of this learned and respectable... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 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. v I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...I 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." He had seen a complete collection of them ia the possession of the Hon. Archibald Campbell, a non-juring... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...I 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." 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State,... | |
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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,... 
