 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...newspapers." No better description can be given of "She Stoops to Conquer" than that which was written by Johnson to Boswell, after reading it in manuscript....incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable." With ยป general resemblance of manner to his former comedy, there is this prominent distinction, that in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 356 pages
...is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem hy which a lover is made to mistake his future father-in-law's...incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable. (') " I am sorry that you lost your cause of Intromission, because I yet think the arguments. on your... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...irreconcileable. Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...is made to mistake his future father-in-law's house lor an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...spring. No name is yet given to it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem, by which a love / ys his herbs and his fish in unmolested freedom, may be envied, if compared to And afterwards, when Colman had actually consented to bring it out, Johnson wrote thus to the Rev.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...irreconcileable. Dr. Goldsmith lias a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. ple ; am1 " I am sorry that you lost your cause of Intromission, Iwcause I yet think the arguments on your side... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...' Doctor Goldsmith has a new comedy, ' which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. ' The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so pre' pared as not to seem improbable.' But though Colman had consented, it was with reservation of... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...' Doctor Goldsmith has a new comedy, ' which is expected iu the spring. No name is yet given it. ' The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so pre' pared as not to seem improbable.' But though Colman had consented, it was with reservation of... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...' Doctor Goldsmith has a new comedy, ' which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. ' The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so pre' pared as not to seem improbable.' But though Colman had consented, it was with reservation of... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...' Doctor Goldsmith has a new comedy, ' which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. ' The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...future father-in-law's house ' for an inn. This, you sec, borders upon farce. The ' dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so pre' pared as not... | |
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Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which a lover is made to mistake his future father-in-law's house for an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce. The... 
