| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 sider
...has been the delight of childhood no less than the amusement of those of mature years. " Vv'aa there ever any thing written by mere man," says doctor Johnson,...readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and tliu Pilgrim's Progress?" "There is one book," says Rousseau, "which shall long form the whole library... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1832 - 274 sider
...boy in Europe might say the same." — A/flrmonttl. " Was there ever any thing written by mere man, that was wished longer by its readers, excepting DON...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sider
...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,... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 sider
...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,... | |
| 1852 - 670 sider
...could ever possibly arrive at the last page; and that there was never anything writ-ten by mere man, of which •he bad some hundred fathoms by her; with...she intended to make a fishing-net as soon as the After Homer's Iliad, he said, the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world, as a book of entertainment;... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 sider
...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... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 sider
...which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page! 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?" After Homer's Iliad, Mr. Johnson confessed that the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world,... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 sider
...which one ever can possibly arrive at the latt 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. Johnson confessed that the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world,... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 624 sider
...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,...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... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 sider
...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,... | |
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