 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 páginas
...was received with such avidity, J that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 490 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, "with such avidity that the " price of the first edition was raised before the second could " be made — it was read by the high and the low, the learned " and the illiterate. Criticism was lost in wonder." Now, on the contrary, Schlosser wonders not at all,... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 páginas
...first appeared in 1727 its novelty filled all readers with amazement, and then with merriment, and it was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate. Its satire was understood and its audacity appreciated and admitted. It is only the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 542 páginas
...said Dr. Samuel Johnson, "that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate." The fame of the book passed to the Continent, and it was translated into French at... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 páginas
...It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made : It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was, for a while, lost in wonder. No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in... | |
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Travels ;" a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by... 
