 | 1824 - 564 pages
...warm admirer both of the lady and her book, exclaimed, in- allusion to the pathetic close of it, " I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much !" Altogether, Sidney Biddulph, though not likely to regain her former popularity, or to resist the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of " heaven's mercy." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it: " I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in Russel-street, Covent-garden,* told... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...resigned, and full of hope of ' heaven's mercy.' Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it : ' I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much'.' ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.' ' When a man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...resigned, and full of hope of ' heaven's mercy.' Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it : ' I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much1.' ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.' '... | |
 | 1799 - 500 pages
...refigned, and full of hope of Heaven's mercy.— ]ohnion " paid her the hightft compliment upon it: I know not, Madam .' that you have a right " upon moral principles, to make your Reader s fuffer fu much." Bofwcll't Johnfon, vol. Ui. p. 353, 4** ing of a barrifter who had a bad... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of " heaven's mercy." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it : "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in llussel-street, Covent-garden, 1... | |
 | John Watkins - 1817 - 374 pages
...sentiment of Johnson, who conveyed compliment and censure together, in this observation to the author: " I know not, madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Mr. Sheridan was at this period busily engaged in delivering eight lectures on elocution, the subscription... | |
 | John Watkins - 1818 - 508 pages
...sentiment of Johnson, who conveyed compliment and censure together, in this observation to the author: " I know not, madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Mr. Sheridan was at this period busily engaged in delivering eight lectures on elocution, the subscription... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of" Heaven's merey." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it : " I know not, madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." " People," he remarked, " may be taken in once, who imagine that an anthor is greater in private life... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of " heaven's mercy." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it ; "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Mr. Thomas Davits the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in Rnssel-Street, Covent-garden.J told... | |
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. 
