 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...many books right through, though, according to Mrs. Piozzi, he asked, 'was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its...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 Seiten
...many books right through, though, according to Mrs. Piozzi, he asked, 'was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its...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 Seiten
...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*... | |
 | 1823 - 496 Seiten
...the last page ; and that there was never any thing written by mere man, that was wished longer by it* readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. After Homer's Iliad, he said, the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world as a book of entertainment. Shakespeare... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 718 Seiten
...greatest of panegyricks." reader. In a conversation with Mrs. Thrale, he said, " Was there ever anything written by mere man, that was wished longer by its...excepting ' Don Quixote,' ' Robinson Crusoe,' and the ' Pilgrims' Progress ?' " Although the story of ' Robinson Crusoe' was completed in the two volumes... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1830 - 480 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 Seiten
...came to the end of the business he was about. " ' Alas, madam !' continued he, ' how few books P- 2I ?are there of which one ever can possibly arrive at...and the Pilgrim's Progress?' After Homer's Iliad, Dr. Johnsuggestions, observes on this passage, that " Johnson's censure was undeserved. Jeremiah Markland... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 Seiten
...to the end of the business he was about. " ' Alas, madam !' continued he, ' how few books P- 217are there of which one ever can possibly arrive at the...and the Pilgrim's Progress?' After Homer's Iliad, Dr. Johnsuggestions, observes on this passage, that " Johnson's censure was undeserved. Jeremiah Markland... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1832 - 274 Seiten
...pleasure ; and 1 believe every boy in Europe might say the same." — A/flrmonttl. " Was there ever any thing written by mere man, that was wished longer...QUIXOTE, ROBINSON CRUSOE, and the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS?" — Johnson. " De Foe's style is every where beautiful, but plain and homely. ROBINSON CRUSOE is delightful... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 628 Seiten
...amusement of those of mature years. " Waathere ever any thing written by mere man," says doctor Johnson, " that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?" "There is one book," says Rousseau, " which shall longform the whole library of Emile, and which shall... | |
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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 ?**"/ After Homer's " Iliad, 
