 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 Life of Samuel Johnson: 1709-March 18, 1776 - Page 432by James Boswell - 1907 - 1172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 466 pages
...xci. TO SAMUEL JO HNS ON, LL. D. BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so muck to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. M UCC XCI. SAMUE L JOHNSON, L LD BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...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 found... | |
 | 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...much to compliment you as -myself. It may do me some honor to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN : FIRST PRINTED IN M,DCC,LXXII. TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. UK A II SIR, BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...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 - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...his new comedy, " She Stoops to Conquer." " By inscribing this slight performance to you," he says, " I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself....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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...rKINTED IN 1772. DEDICATION. TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. DEAR SIB, Br inscribing this slight perfonnance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you, as...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN FIRST PRINTED IN M,DCC,LXXIL TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. DEAR SIR, BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...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
...Conquer."* Johnson observed, that there were very few books printed in Scotland before the Union. * " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the publick, that I have lived many •years in intimacy with you. It may .serve the interests of mankind... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...office of their Librarian, should have been in Latin." I put a question to him upon a fact in common 1 " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the publick, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also... | |
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