| 1855 - 1080 páginas
...Shakspeare. — In Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton t find that " the nation had been satisfied from 1G23 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies." Is any thing more known at this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 páginas
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare; which probably did not together make one-thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic to... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 134 páginas
..."the call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at present ; the nation had been satisfied, from 1623 to 1664 — that is, forty-one years — with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make 1,000 copies. The sale of 1,300 copies in two years,... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 496 páginas
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies." (Vol. ix. p. 137.) — -It... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 582 páginas
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies." (YoL ix. p. 137.) — It is... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 502 páginas
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies." (Vol. ix. p. 137.) — It is... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 páginas
...Lost " sold in eleven years; and the nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1644, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies: facts adduced by the critic... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 páginas
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare; which probably did not together make one-thousand Copies ; facts adduced by the critic... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...were sold in eleven years ; and the nation, says Dr. ohnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1644, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare ; which probably did not together make icoo copies: facts adduced by the critic to prove... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 páginas
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare ; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic... | |
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