...Garrick ; and it does not appear that, during those years, David Garrick saw much of his fellow-townsman. Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when...not arrived. The number of readers is at present so 1 Johnson was born in 1709 and had made a reputation by his London published in 1738. Reynolds was...

...negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when...was most miserable and degraded. It was a dark night State of between two sunny days. The age of patauthors in JJ r the early ronage had passed away. The...

...Johnson first went up to London, calls it " a dark night between two sunny days. The age of Maecenases had passed away. The age of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived." He then goes on to speak of the honors and rewards that were showered upon men of letters by the chiefs...

...authors was at its worst when Samuel Johnson began his career in London. Macaulay compares the epoch to 'a dark night between two sunny days. The age of patronage...general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived.' The political patronage of men of letters was extinguished by Walpole, who found probably that he could...

...tiny charms, which are distributed to pilgrims. LAFCADIO HEABN : Kokoro (Houghton, Mifflin & Company). degraded. It was a dark night between two sunny days....curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. . . . The patronage of the public did not yet furnish the means of comfortable subsistence. The prices paid by...

...Coverley, of Goldsmith, and of Dr. Johnson. 3. (Twenty minutes.) What does Macaulay mean when he says that Johnson " came up to London precisely at the time...a man of letters was most miserable and degraded"? 4. (Twenty minutes.) Write a letter, addressed to a person with whom you are not acquainted, applying...

...Garrick ; and it does not appear that, during those years, David Garrick saw much of his fellow townsman. Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when...general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. . . . a past age, the last survivor of the genuine race of Grub Street hacks ; the last of that generation...

...do, and was prevented from doing by the law of copyright. 5. Johnson came up to London precisely at a time when the condition of a man of letters was most miserable and degraded. 6. The prices paid by the booksellers to authors were so low that a man of considerable talents and...

...form — in the long, complex sentence with which the last paragraph concludes: JOHNSON'S PROSPECTS Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when...was a dark night between two sunny days. The age of Maecenases had passed away. The age of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number...

...correct? Give examples of what Macaulay refers to, and say if his remarks are exaggerated in any form. Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when...degraded. It was a dark night between two sunny days. ... A writer had little to hope from the patronage of powerful individuals. The patronage of the public...