| Oliver Goldsmith, George Ostler - 1909 - 568 pagina’s
...which a lover is made to mistake his future father-in-law's house for an inn. This, you see, borders on farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so prepared as not to seent improbable ' (Boswell's Life, ed. Birkbeck Hill, ii. 205-6). And on March 4, eleven days before... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pagina’s
...Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chiei diversion arises from a stratagem by which a lover...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 side... | |
| George Henry Nettleton - 1914 - 396 pagina’s
...naming the play. A few weeks before its production, Doctor Johnson wrote to Boswell, 24 February, 1773, 'The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...house for an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce.' 3 Farcical elements, indeed, are frequent in She Stoops to Conquer. Goldsmith 1 Genest, V, 374~377.... | |
| George Henry Nettleton - 1914 - 392 pagina’s
...naming the play. A few weeks before its production, Doctor Johnson wrote to Boswell, 24 February, 1773, 'The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...father-in-law's house for an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce.'3 Farcical elements, indeed, are frequent in She Stoops to Conquer. Goldsmith 1 Genest, V, 374~377*... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pagina’s
...irreconcilable. 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...incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable. "My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh,... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 pagina’s
...exhilarated an audience, and has so much answered the great end of comedy — making an audience merry. The dialogue is quick and gay ; and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable." * This year, Mr Davies, the bookseller, published a collection of " Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces,"... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...47. 66 Boswell, Life of Johnson, ii, p. 233. According to Boswell, Johnson also said '[it] borders on farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable.' William Woodfall (No. 273), taking his cue from Johnson, also commented on the excellence of Goldsmith's... | |
| James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pagina’s
...irreconcilable. 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...borders upon farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and a Second Edition, add note: Given by a lady at Edinburgh. the incidents are so prepared as not to seem... | |
| 1905 - 860 pagina’s
...Johnson to Boswell, ** has a new comedy, which is expected in the springNo name is yet given to it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which...incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable." Whence Goldsmith took this plot of his has never been told by any of his biographers. It was, in fact,... | |
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