 | 1791 - 542 páginas
...Johnfon's RAS8ELAS ; infomuch that I have heard Johnion fay, that if they had not been publifhed lo clofely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the fcheme of that which came lateft was taken frum the other. Though the proportion iliuftrated by both... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 páginas
...RASSELAS ; infomuch, that I have heard Johnfon fay, that if they had not been publifhed fo clofely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the fcheme of that which came lateft was taken from the other. Though the propofition illuftrated by both... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say*, that if they had not been...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated . by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rassclas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say1, that if they had not been published so closely one...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1805 - 432 páginas
...Tales of the Genii, endeavoured * " I have heard Johnson," says Mr. Boswell, " say of these two works, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...that the scheme of that which came latest was taken ' [RASSELAS was published in March or April 1759.] 1759. from the other. Though the proposition illustrated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully imiUir in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully eirailar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...to deny that the scheme of that which came latest wns taken from the other. Though the proposition illnstrated by both these works "as the same, namely,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
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Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so... 
