| James Boswell - 1832 - 616 páginas
...volume it is told ; for Clarissa is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside forever; but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the...beg that this edition, by which I suppose posterity i» to abide, may want nothing that can facilitate its uae. — I am, sir, yours, &c. " S. JOHNSON."]... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...told; for Clarissa is not a performance to he read with eagerness, and laid aside forever; hut will he occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and...edition, by which I suppose posterity is to abide, may^^vant nothing that can facilitate its use. — I am, sir, yours, &c. " S. JOHNSON."] [This proposition... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 páginas
...volume It is told; fori'larisiei IK not a performance to be read with eagerness, aud laid aside forever; but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the...studious; and therefore I beg that this edition, by whivh I suppose posterity is to abide, may want nothing tbat can facilitate its use. I am, sir, yours,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 páginas
...for Clarissa is not a performance to lie ruad with ca^ernetus, and laid aside forever; hut will I« occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and the studious; and therefore I 1>е£ that this edition, by which l suppow posterity is to abide, may want nothing thnt can fiicilitate... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 páginas
...short. " I wish you would add an index rcrmn, 1 that when the reader recollects any incident, he may easily find it, which at present he cannot do, unless...is to abide, may want nothing that can facilitate Us use. " I am, SIR, yours, &c. "S. JOHNSoN."] Though Johnson's circumstances were at this time far... | |
| 1869 - 1062 páginas
...letters, asks characteristically that an index bhould be made to the hook; for it is not, he says, " a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid...that this edition, by which I suppose posterity is to ahide, may want nothing that can facilitate its uss." There are portions of this correanondence, especially... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...volume it is told : for Clarissa is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside forever; take among us in the educating our children is, that...daughters we take care of their persons and neglect their u*e. DR. S. JOHNSON : To S. Richardson, March 9, 1750-1 ; BoswelFs Life of Johnson, vol. i. If it appears... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1892 - 314 páginas
...the work, ' for " Clarissa " is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside forever, but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and the studious.' * Before we take leave of ingenious Samuel Johnson's pleasant company, let us saunter with him as he... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 páginas
...volume It is told ; for Clarissa is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside forever; but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the...studious: and therefore I beg that this edition, by which 1 suppose posterity Is to abide, may want nothing that can facilitate Its use. I am, sir, yours, &c.t... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1996 - 640 páginas
...the high complimem implied in Johuson's letter to Richardson about Clarissa when he said that novel will be "occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and the studious" iLeners, 1:48t, Johuson's tripanite list puts the age division i"the young"l first, rather than gender,... | |
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