 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 536 σελίδες
...Johnson vindicates the English public of this time from the charge of neglecting this great poem. " The 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 σελίδες
...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. The call for books was not in Wilton's age what it is in the present To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 σελίδες
...if it be considered, will justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify,...them. With such faculties, and such dispositions, anv other time ; but of that middle race of student« who read for pleasure or accomplishment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 σελίδες
...he considered, will justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by llieir executed without im@&@, diegraced by ignorance. The women had not then aspired to literature, nor was every house supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 σελίδες
...public. Those who have no power to judge of [<ast times but by their own, should always doubt ihnr by his po я closet of knowledge. Those, indeed, who professed learning, were not less learned than at anv other... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 σελίδες
...and literary effort were not in his time properly appreciated. "To read was not then," says Johnson, "a general amusement ; neither traders, nor often...every house supplied with a closet of knowledge." Book-making was not then a profitable vocation, and brought to the best authors but little honor. But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 σελίδες
...own, should always doubt their conclusion*. The call for books was not in Milton'* age what it i>* in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither tradera, nor oftei gentlemen, thought themselves disgraced by ignorance. The women had not then aspired... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 σελίδες
...judge of past times but by their own, should]always doubt their conclusions. The call for books" war not in Milton's age what it is in the present. To...literature, nor was every house supplied with a closet of knowledgfr, Those, indeed, who professed learning, were not less learned than at any other time; but... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 σελίδες
...poet received the second payment of 51. Upon this, Dr. Johnson (writing in 1780) has observed that, "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... | |
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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... 
