 ... 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 84edited by - 1780Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 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 Shakespeare ; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies ; facts adduced by the critic... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...were sold in eleven years ; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to Ki64, 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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1910 - 518 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.2 " It is a proof, because if... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 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... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1924 - 262 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 altogether make one thousand copies." Johnson has some further... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 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 altogether make one thousand copies. Johnson has some further remarks... | |
 | 1909 - 498 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 Shakespeare; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...the Work were sold in eleven years; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 16:3 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 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. Johnson was by no means alone... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 pages
...the Work were sold in eleven years; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1613 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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