 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 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 3, and the Pilgrim's Progress 4 ? ' After Homer's Iliad, 1 Arthur Murphy, whom Johnson through several... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 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 3, and the Pilgrim's Progress 4 ? ' After Homer's Iliad, ' Arthur Murphy, whom Johnson through several... | |
 | 1900 - 958 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...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,... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1903 - 360 sider
...were Cervantes, Bunyan, and Defoe. " Was there ever yet," he asked, " anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting "...Quixote," "Robinson Crusoe," and "The Pilgrim's Progress ? " Johnson's own writing during his later years, as I have said, was desultory; it was also curiously... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 644 sider
...insurgents in 1598. 'According to Mrs. Piozzi, Johnson asked: "Was there yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress f" (Anecdotes, p. 231). the iron cage, the palace, at the doors of which armed men kept guard, and... | |
 | William Hale White - 1904 - 270 sider
...Birkbeck Hill's edn. 1887. arrive at the last page I 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? " * The first scholar, however, who really studied Bunyan's works was Southey. His Life prefixed to... | |
 | William Hale White - 1905 - 290 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 ? " 3 1 A Letter to a Young Clergyman. Swift's Works, viii. 215, edn. 1883. * Life, ii. 238, Birkbeck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 sider
...Lost, vii. 30. 1 /Vr/,DRYDEN,3i2. 'Was there,' asked Johnson, 'ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and The Pilgrim's Progress?' John. Misc. i. 332. In a note on Henry V. v. 2 he writes: — 'The comick scenes of the history of... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 910 sider
...delight our book-lover. 'Was there ever yet anything written by mere man/ he asks, 'that was washed longer by its readers, excepting "Don Quixote," "Robinson Crusoe," and "The Pilgrim's Progress"?' 'EG 0.' is an old bachelor, dried and seasoned, a lover of his pipe and his fire-side, and perhaps... | |
 | Gustav Becker - 1906 - 296 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,... | |
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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? 
