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with a prologue by David Garrick, Esq.A Penn State Electronics Classics Series Publication

She Stoops to Conquer ; or, the Mistakes of a Night

by Oliver Goldsmith

is a publication of thePennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without anycharge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any waydoes so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes anyresponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronictransmission, in any way.

She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night

by Oliver Goldsmith

the Pennsylvania StateUniversity,

Electronic Classics Series

, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is aPortable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bringclassical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make useof them.Cover Design: Jim ManisCopyright ©2000 The Pennsylvania State University

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3Oliver Goldsmith

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER;OR,THE MISTAKESOF A NIGHT.

A COMEDY.by

Oliver Goldsmith

To SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

Dear Sir,—By inscribing this slight performance to you, I donot mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do mesome honour to inform the public, that I have lived many yearsin intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind alsoto inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a charac-ter, without impairing the most unaffected piety.I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality tothis performance. The undertaking a comedy not merely senti-mental was very dangerous; and Mr. Colman, who saw thispiece in its various stages, always thought it so. However, I ven-tured to trust it to the public; and, though it was necessarilydelayed till late in the season, I have every reason to be grateful.I am, dear Sir, your most sincere friend and admirer,OLIVER GOLDSMITH.