 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...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...scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.5 Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 220 pages
...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...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 - 1889 - 566 pages
...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...closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation,1 it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...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...closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation,1 it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...1759, about three weeks after Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was interested in this latter fact, and said 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...1759, about three weeks after Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was interested in this latter fact, and said 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...1759, about three weeks after Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was interested in this latter fact, and said 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... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's "Kasselas ; " insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...1759, about three weeks after Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was interested in this latter fact, and said 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... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...1759, about three weeks after Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was interested in this latter fact, and said 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... | |
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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... 
