 ... 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...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Pagina 84geredigeerd door - 1780Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pagina’s
...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. The sale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | 1855 - 1080 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
..."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 - 502 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 582 pagina’s
...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 - 496 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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