 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 pages
...raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. — HOSCOMMON. J. HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is... | |
 | 1824 - 310 pages
...dazzling miracles. ROSCOMMOH. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, until he knows whether the •writer of it be a black or...bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 pages
...person] What Addison says in jest, and with his usual humour, is true in fact : " I have observed 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... | |
 | 1824 - 890 pages
...only through the medium 1823.] of his book : though if, according to the statement of our old friend, the Spectator, " a 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... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...only through the medium 1623.] of his book : though if, according to the statement of our old friend, the Spectator, " a 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...person] What Addison says in jest, and with his usual humour, is true in fact : "I have observed 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... | |
 | Samuel Hobson - 1825 - 212 pages
...before the public, and gives a long account of himself, under the idea, as Addison observes, that" a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1830 - 390 pages
...writer's personal friends ; and as to himself, no curiosity is ever manifested to know, whether " he be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." It is nevertheless true, that there is no want of readers in India, and that books are in abundant... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...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,... | |
 | Arrian - 1831 - 334 pages
...TOIJ ITJXOTOIJ, KOI loiBfloi wop' i\or rbi> Plan trvfyti/ dciruantis. MK. ADDISON has remarked, that " a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or a choleric disposition, married, or a bachelor, with other particulars -of the like nature, that conduce... | |
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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 the like nature, that conduce very... 
