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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work - Page 172
by Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 536 pages
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Coleridge Biographia Literaria

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...copies of the Work were sold in eleven years; and the Nation, says Dr. Johnson, had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare; which probably did not together make one thousand Copies; facts adduced by the critic to...
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