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 the... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 28 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 ページ
...of similar errors: "This veil of flesh parts the visible and invisible world."— Bishop Sherlock. "It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate."— Johnson, Life of Stctft. 6. The attention of the student is called to this passage, as affording an... | |
| 1869 - 536 ページ
...The captain may have some faults, but he is anything but tedious. " It was received," we are told, " with such avidity that the price of the first edition...second could be made. It was read by the high and low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was lost in wonder." This would not have happened had it... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 ページ
...twelve sous per volume, and only one hour allowed for the perusal. In the case of Swift's Gulliver, the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be printed, so urgent was the demand. When Necker, in 1781, published his celebrated Compte Rendu, or... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 ページ
...publication, just one hundred and twenty years «>nce. ' It was received,' says Dr. Johnson, ' with surb avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised...before the second could be made — it was read by tho high and the low, the learned and the illiterate. Criticism was lost in wonder. Now, on the contrary,... | |
| James Mason - 1875 - 674 ページ
...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 got ready. It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate. Criticism was for a... | |
| William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 ページ
...admiration which the book excited were intense : it was read by high and low, learned and illiterate, and the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be ready. The first two voyages, however, are by far the best part of the book. Before Swift returned... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 668 ページ
...hundred and twenty years since. ' It was received,' says Dr. Johnson, ' with such * FZz., Wordsworth. avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised...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, but... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 ページ
...London the MS. of Gulliver's TraveIs, and in November the work appeared. The public went wild over it. " It was read by the high and the low, the learned and...illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder." "Perhaps," says Scott, "no work ever exhibited such general attractions for all classes." At Voltaire's... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 ページ
...under the shield of anonymity,* his masterpiece, "Gulliver's Travels, "f which the public welcomed with such avidity that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be got ready. As Johnson tells us, it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. The... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 ページ
...that the patent had to be revoked. ' Gulliver's Travels' was published in 1726-27, and "was received with such avidity that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made." Swift's relations with Stella and Vanessa — Miss Johnson and Miss Vanhomrigh — are too complicated... | |
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