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" The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignorance*. The women had not then aspired to literature 3, nor was every... "
Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland - Página 43
por Samuel Johnson - 1894
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Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 páginas
...should always doubt their conclusions. The call for books 20 was not, in Milton's age, what it is at present. To read was not then a general amusement;...supplied with a closet of knowledge. Those, indeed, 25 who professed learning, were not less learned than at any other time ; but of that middle race of...
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The Book-lovers' Anthology

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 páginas
...values none the less because a child had coloured the plates with his paints.' P. 256. Milton. — ' The call for books was not in Milton's age what it...every house supplied with a closet of knowledge.' — DB. JOHNSON. P. 257. Browning. — The statue referred to is that of Giovanni delle Bande Nere,...
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Die geschichte

G. A. E. Bogeng - 1922 - 560 páginas
...allerdings auch eine Mode wurde — andeutend bezeichnete diese Entwicklungsrichtung einmal Dr. Johnson: „The call for books was not in Milton's age what...women had not then aspired to literature nor was every housesuppliedwith a closet of knowledge." Doch ein Komfort, der, ähnlich dem altgriechischen Ideal...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 páginas
...no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions. The sale of books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present....literature, nor was every house supplied with a closet of books. Those indeed, who professed learning, were not less learned than at any other time ; but of...
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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia: Examined and Discussed by the Late ...

Edward George Harman - 1924 - 262 páginas
...if it be considered, will justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought...
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The "impersonality" of Shakespeare

Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 páginas
...if it be considered, will justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought...
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John Milton: 1732-1801

John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions. The sale (call) for books was not in Milton's age what it is...literature, nor was every house supplied with a closet of boob (knowledge). Those, indeed, who professed learning were no less learned than at any other time;...
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The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early ...

Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 páginas
...Paradise Lost "received no publick acclamations": Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....was every house supplied with a closet of knowledge. (1:143) These female readers, "Milton's daughters" in the largest sense, were not necessarily, however,...
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Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744 ...

Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 páginas
...cautious, for the sale of books was anything but a safe venture. To read was not then [says Samuel Johnson] a general amusement; neither traders, nor often gentlemen,...closet of knowledge. Those, indeed, who professed learnmg, were not less learned than at any other time ; but of the middle race of students who read...
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The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late ...

Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 páginas
...contexts. At times, he seemed to equate it generally with reading. In the "Life of Milton," he wrote that the "call for books was not in Milton's age what it...every house supplied with a closet of knowledge." "General literature," he added, "now pervades the nation through all its ranks."7 At other times, Johnson...
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