 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an ac€omplimmem ftill valued for its rarity. Nations, Nations, like individuals, have their infancy.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fchqlars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplithment Hill valued for its rarity. 2 Nations, t ' Nations, like individuals, have their infancy.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplifliment ftill valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their infancy. A people... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplilhment ftill valued for ks rarity. f Nations, like individuals, have their infancy. A people... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplifhment ftill •valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their infancy. A people... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...elegance with learning, read, with great diligence, the Italian and Spanish poets. But literature was yet confined to" professed scholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was gross and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplishment still valued for... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high r»nk. The public was grofs and dark; and to be able to read and write, was an Mcomplilhment flill valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their injaocy. A people,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...literature was yet confined to profeffed fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplifhment ftill valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their infancy. A people... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...literature was yet confined to profefled fcholars, or to men and women of high rank. The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplimment ftill valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their infancy, A peoE pie... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...literature was yet confined to profeffed fcholars, or to men and women of high rank> The publick was grofs and dark; and to be able to read and write, was an accomplilhment flill valued for its rarity. Nations, like individuals, have their infancy. A people... | |
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Greek was now taught to boys in the principal schools ; and those who united elegance with learning, read, with great diligence, the Italian and Spanish poets. But literature was yet confined to professed scholars, or to men and women of high rank. The... 
