 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 страници
...life." Speaking of " She Stoops to Conquer," Dr. Johnson said, " I know of no play, for many years, that has answered so much the great end of comedy — making an audience merry." — See Life, ch. xxii.] i SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. DEAR Si*, BY inscribing this slight performance to... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 страници
...great success. Dr. Johnson said of ' She Stoops to Conquer ' that ' he knew of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has...great end of comedy— making an audience merry.' One of his last publications was a ' History of the Earth and Animated Nature,' which appeared in 1774,... | |
 | 1838 - 542 страници
...great success. Dr. Johnson said of ' She Stoops to Conquer ' that ' he knew of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has...great end of comedy — making an audience merry.' One of his last publications was a ' History of the Earth and Animated Nature,' which appeared in 1774,... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 страници
...great success. Dr. Johnson said of ' She Stoops to Conquer ' that 'he knew of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has...great end of comedy — making an audience merry.' One of his last publications was a ' History of the Earth and Animated Nature," which appeared in 1774,... | |
 | 1838 - 542 страници
...great success. Dr. Johnson said of ' She Stoops to Conquer ' that ' he knew of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has...great end of comedy — making an audience merry.' One of his last publications was a ' History of the Earth and Animated Nature,' which appeared in 1774,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 страници
...contrary to the expectation of the manager. Dr. Johnson said, " That he knew of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has...great end of comedy — making an audience merry." The success of this piece excited the envy of a jealous scribbler, who attacked him in a scurrilous... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Peake - 1841 - 442 страници
...of it : " That he knew no comedy for many years that had so much exhilarated an audience ; that had answered so much the great end of comedy ; making an audience merry." Struck to the heart by the critical forebodings, and by the chilling reeep* Mr. Whitehead held the... | |
 | 1869 - 576 страници
...best of the old comedies by one of the greatest of the old masters F— the play which JOHNSON said "answered so much the great end of comedy, making an audience merry." St. James's will supply all your wants. There an operetta begins the entertainment, and The Magic Wallt... | |
 | 1855 - 602 страници
...the house followed the lead and laughed in chorus. " I know of no comedy," he said, " for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, — that...the great end of comedy, making an audience merry." "The play," Goldsmith wrote himself to Mr. Cradock, "has met with a success much beyond your expectations... | |
 | 1850 - 642 страници
...well as for its kindness to the sensitive author ; " I know of no comedy for many years," he said, " that has so much exhilarated an audience ; that has...great end of comedy — making an audience merry." In the commencement of the year 1774, Goldsmith was surrounded by an accumulation of work, that would... | |
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I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy — making an audience merry. 
