 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fuffiv cicntcient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that; is, forty-one...The fale of thirteen hundred copies in two years, in oppofition to fo much recent enmity, and to a flyle of verfification new to all and difgufting to.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 σελίδες
...comparatively final]. To prove the paucity of reader;, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one...The fale of thirteen hundred copies in two years, in oppofition to fo much recent enmity, and to a ttyle of verification new to all and difgufting to many,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 σελίδες
...the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to r^nr.rk, that the nation had been fatisfied, fir.m 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions qf the works of 2OI Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. • The fale... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 σελίδες
...paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied from i623 to t664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thouiand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 σελίδες
...comparatively fmall. To To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is forty-one...The fale of thirteen hundred copies in two years, in oppofition to fo much recent enmity, and to a ftyle of verification new to all and difgufting to many,... | |
 | 1802 - 700 σελίδες
...books was not in Milton's age • what it is at prefcnt ; the nation had • been fatisfied from 1613 to 1664, that • is, forty-one years, with only two • editions of the works of Shakfpeare, • which probably did not together 4 make one thoufand copies. The fele • of thirteen... | |
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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... 
