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... read for pleasure or accomplishment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively small. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to...

The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work - Página 176
de Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 536 páginas
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Coleridge Biographia Literaria

...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...

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Anglistica and americana

Gerog Olms

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