 | Thomas Davies - Actors - 1781 - 464 pages
...lay claim to any recommendation from him, as he had taken pains to deprive himfelfof his affiftance by an unprovoked attack upon his management of the theatre, in his State of Learning. Goldfmith, inftead of making an apology for his condudt either from mifinformation... | |
 | Actors - 1805 - 448 pages
...could not avoid observing, " that it was impossible he could lay cluim to his recommendation, as he had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance,...unprovoked attack upon his management of the theatre." — Goldsmith bluntly answered, " in truth he had spoken his mind, and believed what he said was ve^y... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 552 pages
...observing to him, that k was impossible he . " could lay claim to any recommendation from him, as " he had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance,...of the" theatre, in his present State of Learning. Goldsmith, " instead of making an apology for his conduct, either " from misinformation or misconception,... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1818 - 312 pages
...observing to him, that it was impossible he could lay claim to any recommendation from him, as be had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance by...attack upon his management of the theatre, in his State of Learning. Goldsmith, instead of making an apology for his conduct either from misinformation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...observing to him, that it was impossible he could lay claim to any recommendation from him, as he had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance by...attack upon his management of the theatre, in his State of Learning. Goldsmith, instead of malting an apology for his conduct either from misinformation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...observing to him, that it was impossible he could lay claim to any recommendation from him, as he had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance by...attack upon his management of the theatre, in his State of Learning. Goldsmith, instead of making an apology for his conduct either from misinformation... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...unable, in any instance, to conceive a better actuating motive than the envy his prosperity had excited. Thomas Davies tells us, that when, somewhere about...' attack upon his management of the theatre in his State ' of Learning, it was impossible he could lay claim to any ' recommendation from himself.' Davies... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...unable, in any instance, to conceive a better actuating motive than the envy his prosperity had excited. Thomas Davies tells us, that when, somewhere about...' attack upon his management of the theatre in his State ' of Learning, it was impossible he could lay claim to any ' recommendation from himself.' Davies... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...unable, in any instance, to conceive a better actuating motive than the envy his prosperity had excited. Thomas Davies tells us, that when, somewhere about...' attack upon his management of the theatre in his State ' of Learning, it was impossible he could lay claim to any ' recommendation from himself.' Davies... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...observing to him, that it was impossible he could lay claim to any recommendation from him, as he had taken pains to deprive himself of his assistance by...unprovoked attack upon his management of the theatre, in hia 'State of Learning.' Goldsmith, instead of making an apology for his conduct, either from misinformation... | |
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Goldsmith, instead of making an apology for his conduct, either from misinformation or misconception, bluntly replied : 'In truth he had spoken his mind, and believed what he said was very right. 
