 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be lufficient to remark, that the nation had been fvisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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 the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies. The sale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...accomplifhment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from IGiJS 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... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...Johnfon, that " the call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at prefent ; — the nation liad been fatisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thouland copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...observes) was not in Milton's age what it is in the present ; the nation had been satisfied, from T 2 276 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1&23 to 1661, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 166'4, that is, fortyone 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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... 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... 
