...London the MS. of Gulliver's Travels, and in November the work appeared. The public went wild over it. " It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder." "Perhaps," says Scott, "no work ever exhibited such general...

...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...

...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...

...said Dr. Samuel Johnson, "that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate." The fame of the book passed to the Continent, and it was translated into French at...

...received with such avidity that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for awhile lost in wonder: no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...

...initial reception. In the words of Dr. Johnson, critics were "lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity." 5 This suspension of critical activity was only momentary, but it reflects a problematic that has persisted....

...the appearance of Gulliver's Travels: "Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity" (Lives, 1:38). Johnson's phrase accurately describes the provocative way that Swift's satire regularly...

...as some passages can be enjoyed by children. Johnson acknowledged the book's success but added that no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth andregularity. -'"' Even Boswell wondered why Johnson was so harsh on Swift. Johnson had not set out...

...thè high and thè low, thè learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; nor rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when distinctions carne to be made, thè part which gave thè least pleasure was that which describes thè...