| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 pàgines
...a querulous and apoiogetical Preface. This important year fent likewife into the world Gti/Iiver's Travels, a production fo new and ftrange, that it...that the price of the firft edition was raifed before a fecond could be made j it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 262 pàgines
...prefixed a querulous and apologetical Preface. This important year fent likewife into the world Gulliver's Travels, a production fo new and ftrange, that it...that the price of the firft edition was raifed before a fecond could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 450 pàgines
...production fo new and flrange, fhat it filled the rpader with a mingled emotion of mer T timent aa<l amazement. It was received with fuch .avidity, that the price of the firft edition was raifecl tiefore the fccond could b« made; It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate.... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 332 pàgines
...a querulous and apologetical preface* This important year fent likewife into the world "Gulliver's Travels," a production fo new and ftrange, that it...the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open... | |
| 1794 - 954 pàgines
...profit, which wu тегу eonCdcrable. The fame year, he publilhcd Gulliver's Traveli, a production that was received with fuch avidity, that the price of the firft edition was raifed before the fécond could be made. It was read by the bigh zná the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pàgines
...mifcellanies in conjunction with Pope. This important year lent like wife into the world "Gulliver's Travels," a production fo new and ftrange that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion ot merriment and amazement. While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work, -the news of the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1798 - 278 pàgines
...Lttier In Augulf 1717 Swift returned to England, and foon after appeared his Gullii>ei''j Tfaiiels, a production fo new and ftrange, that it filled the...mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was read by all ranks of people, high and low, learned and illiterate, and the demand for it was immenfe.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...sent likewise into the world " Gulliver's Travels," a production so new and strange, that it filler! the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, th t the first rdition was rared before the second could be made ; it was read by the... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in f^pendefiance... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...important year sent likewise into the world " Gulliver's Travels," a production so new and strange that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work, the news of the King's death arrived, and... | |
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