 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - Страниц: 718
...admiration of later times. JOHN BUNYAN. (1628-1688.) "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"? — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. "Ingenious dreamer! in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Страниц: 616
...BEATTIE, JAMES, 1783, Dissertations, Moral and Critical. 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?" — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1784-5, Piozzi's Anecdotes, No. 140. It was the happiness of De Foe, that as many... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - Страниц: 452
...Piozzi's anecdotes of Dr. Johnson is that 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 ? ' Johnson declared that the work of Cervantes was the greatest in the world, ' speaking of it, I... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - Страниц: 332
...part that Dr. Johnson applied his remark when he asked, "Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting 'Don...Quixote,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' and the 'Pilgrim's Progress?' " If no one can read the first part without wishing it longer, Defoe ought not to be blamed too severely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - Страниц: 562
...but the Bible. Mrs. Piozzi relates that he once asked if there were any book " Written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting Don...Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress ? " It will that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - Страниц: 920
...Johnson's that should delight our book-lover. 'Was there ever yet anything written by mere man,' he asks, 'that was wished longer by its readers, excepting..."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... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - Страниц: 292
...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?" (HL Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., ed. Arthur Sherbo (London, 1974), pp. 36-7)-... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - Страниц: 340
...extended this remark by once asking Mrs. Piozzi, "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?" Johnson's own method was to begin a book in the middle and if he felt the inclination to read more... | |
 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - Страниц: 228
...for an equally famous, apparently eccentric list: "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?" 113 Despite several obvious differences, these works—all of which deviate in varying degrees from... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Страниц: 686
...falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. Was there ever yet anything written by mere man e remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! 8844 Eloisa to Abelard Oh 5078 The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. 5079 Boswell... | |
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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? 
