| John Milton - 1873 - 606 σελίδες
...uncultivated countrymen ; — amongst whom, as Johnson says, with respect to the sale of " Paradise Lost," " to read was not then a general amusement ; neither...ignorance : the women had not then aspired to literature .... and of that middle race of students, who read for pleasure or accomplishment, the number waa comparatively... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 σελίδες
...Public et les Hommes de Lcttres." may call literature. As Dr. Johnson said in his " Life of Milton," " 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... | |
| John Milton - 1886 - 634 σελίδες
...uncultivated countrymen ; — amongst whom, as Johnson says, with respect to the sale of " Paradise Lost," " to read was not then a general amusement ; neither...ignorance: the women had not then aspired to literature .... and of that middle race of students, who read for pleasure or accomplishment, the number was comparatively... | |
| John Milton - 1886 - 630 σελίδες
...countrymen ; — amongst whom, as Johnson says, •with respect to the sale of " Paradise Lost," " to read was not then a general amusement ; neither...ignorance: the women had not then aspired to literature .... and of that middle race of students, •who read for pleasure or accomplishment, the number was... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 σελίδες
...utmost extent of his knowledge. It is always safer to err in favour of others than of ourselves, and 1 " The call for books was not in Milton's age what it...present. To read was not then a general amusement. . . , The women had not then aspired to lite1ature." — Johnson's Worhs, vii. 107. " That general... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 σελίδες
...utmost extent of his knowledge. It is always safer to err in favour of others than of ourselves, and 1 " The call for books was not in Milton's age what it...present. To read was not then a general amusement. . . , The women had not then aspired to literature." — Johnson's Works, vii. 107. " That general... | |
| James Boswell - 1891 - 548 σελίδες
...Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 10.' ' Johnson often maintained this diffusion of learning. Thus he wrote : — ' The call for books was not in Milton's age what it...The women had not then aspired to literature nor was even' house supplied with a closet of knowledge.' Works, vii. 107. He goes on to mention 'that general... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 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 amuse- 30 ment : neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 σελίδες
...be considered, will justify the publick *. Those 135 who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignorance3. The women had not then aspired to literature 3, nor was every house supplied with a closet... | |
| 1906 - 856 σελίδες
...justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should alway5 doubt their conclusions. 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... | |
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