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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... "
Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 84
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Aesthetical and literary

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic to...
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Aesthetical and literary

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 pages
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare ; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 642 pages
...as a proof of the paucity of readers in the seventeenth century 'that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make 1,000 copies.'2 By the middle of the eighteenth century,...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth, with memoir, notes etc

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...were sold in eleven years ; and the nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1644, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare ; which probably did not together make 1000 copies: facts adduced by the critic to prove...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies. The sale of thirteen hundred...
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Prefaces and Essays on Poetry: With a Letter to Lady Beaumont

William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years; and the Nation, says Dr. 5 Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic to...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 pages
...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare ; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies ; facts adduced by the critic...
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies. The sale of thirteen hundred...
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Shaksper Not Shakespeare

William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 pages
..."To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, fortyone years, with only two editions of Shakespeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies. ' ' Probably not more than one-half...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies. The sale of thirteen hundred...
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