 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 Seiten
...HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses 1 a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the *rilfr of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or cbokric dUpOiition, married or a bachelor, with othfr particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | 1823 - 328 Seiten
...instructive, and certainly as moral, as any of those above-mentioned. " I have observed," says Addison, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure,...disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to a right understanding of the author." This opinion of our... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 Seiten
...miracles to sight. Fiuvcrs. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a...man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the light understanding... | |
 | 1818 - 564 Seiten
...reminded of the homely French proverb — Qui se sent galeux se gale. The Spectator says — "I hare observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with...man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a batchelor, wilh oilier particulars of the like nature, that conduce much to the right, understanding... | |
 | 1823 - 466 Seiten
...instructive, and certainly as moral, as any of those above-mentioned. " I have observed," says Addison, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure,...disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to 9. right understanding of the .author." This opinion of our... | |
 | 1822 - 788 Seiten
...HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses 1 shook with pleasure, till he knows whether the niter etherin a very beautiful order. At the end of the folios (which were finely bound and gilt) were gre puticulan of the like nature, that conduce mjrmach to the right understanding of an authar. Topttify... | |
 | 1822 - 666 Seiten
...reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, until he knows whether the writer be a fair or a black man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." Regarding these particulars,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 Seiten
...that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." What passages in Horace are more agreeable than when he tells us he was fat and sleek," preecanum,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." What passages in Horace are more agreeable than when he tells us he was fat and sleek, "praecanum,... | |
 | 1824 - 884 Seiten
...reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a fair or a black man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the iike nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author," the public are abundantly... | |
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I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much... 
