 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that elve or fourteen times attempted to keep a journal...mind; and you should write down every thing that y Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 páginas
...is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS ; insomuch, that I have heird Johnson say, that if they had not been published so...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 - 1846 - 602 páginas
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RisSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of thst which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by bulb these works... | |
 | 1846 - 756 páginas
...wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Rasselas," observes Boswell, adding, " in so much that I have heard Johnson say, 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 - 1848 - 374 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 - 1848 - 1798 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...after the other that there was not time for imitation 4, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 páginas
...its plan and conduct to Kasselas, in so much," adds Boswell, (Croker's 8vo. edition, i. 331.) "that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...published so closely one after the other, that there was no time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1859 - 450 páginas
...that Johnson himself confessed that, if the two had not been published so closely that there was no time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came * The title was, ' Sciocchezze scoperte nell' opere del Machiavelli dal P. Lucchesini.' " Les libraires,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 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... | |
 | 1860 - 782 páginas
...motive, it is similar in plan and conduct to Voltaire's Candide, "insomuch," observes Boswell, " that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...that which came latest was taken from the other." In 1762, he accepted, but not without some reluctance, arising from his predilection for the House... | |
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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... 
