 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pàgines
...through, though, according to Mrs. Piozzi, he asked, 'was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress ?' Piozzi's Anec. p. 281. Nevertheless in Murphy's statement there is some truth. See what has been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pàgines
...through, though, according to Mrs. Piozzi, he asked, 'was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?' Piozzi 's Anec. p. 281. Nevertheless in Murphy's statement there is some truth. See what has been just... | |
 | 1810 - 566 pàgines
...possibly arrive at the last page, asks, " was there ever yet any thing written by mortal man, which was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress >" To this question, to which the doctor undoubtedly expected an answer in the negative, we may confidently*... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 pàgines
...which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page ! Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress ?" After Homer's Iliad, Mr. Johnson confessed that the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world,... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1830 - 480 pàgines
...possibly arrive at the last page, asks, " was there ever yet any thing written by mortal man, which was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?" To this question, to which the doctor undoubtedly expected an answer in the negative, we may confidently... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 718 pàgines
...reader. In a conversation with Mrs. Thrale, he said, " Was there ever anything written by mere man, that was wished longer by its readers, excepting ' Don Quixote,' ' Robinson Crusoe,' and the 'Pilgrims' Progress?'" Although the story of ' Robinson Crusoe' was completed in the two volumes already... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pàgines
...which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page ! Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?' After Homer's Iliad, Dr. Johnsuggestions, observes on this passage, that " Johnson's censure was undeserved.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pàgines
...which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page ! Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?' After Homer's Iliad, Dr. Johnsuggestions, observes on this passage, that " Johnson's censure was undeserved.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 pàgines
...has been the delight of childhood no less than the amusement of those of mature years. " Was there ever any thing written by mere man," says doctor Johnson,..."There is one book," says Rousseau, " which shall long form the whole library of Emile, and which shall preserve a high rank to the last: it is not Aristotle,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 616 pàgines
...amusement of those of mature years. " Was there ever any thing written by mere man," says doctor Jolmson, " that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Progress?" "There is one book," says Rousseau, "which shall long form the whole library of Emile, and which shall preserve a high rank to the last: it is not Aristotle,... | |
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Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? 
