 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 566 pages
..."Voltaire's Candide is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas ; insomuch that I have heard Johnson say that if they had not...published so closely one after the other that there POSTSCRIPT. In the Atlantic for June, 1882, Mr. John Fiske refers to the often-quoted Darwin-and-Wallace... | |
 | Charles Augustus Whittuck - Conduct of life in literature - 1901 - 292 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 been published so closely the one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas ; insomuch, 47 Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | Martha Pike Conant - English fiction - 1908 - 352 pages
...April of that year. Johnson was one of the first to observe the similarity between the two books. " I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...that which came latest was taken from the other." Boswell, Life of Johnson, edited by GB Hill, Vol. I., p. 342. Hill's note, same page : " It should... | |
 | Martha Pike Conant - English fiction - 1908 - 352 pages
...April of that year. Johnson was one of the first to observe the similarity between the two books. " I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been...that which came latest was taken from the other." Boswell, Life of Johnson, edited by GB Hill, Vol. I., p. 342. Hill's note, same page : " It should... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 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... | |
 | 1919 - 348 pages
...its plan and conduct to Johnson's 'Rasselas;' insomuch that I have heard Johnson say, that if the two had not been published so closely one after the other...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 - 1924 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 268 pages
...publication. The date was noted at the time, because of the similarity between Rasselas and Candide. Boswell heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Now Candide was published before the end of February ; * and it is hardly necessary to point out that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 258 pages
...similarity between Rasselas and Candide, Boswell heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published si closely one after the other that there was not time...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Now Candide was published before the end of February r\f' and it is hardly necessary to point outTthat... | |
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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... 
