 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows Wuether the writer of it be a black or a fair Btan, @ f that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 pages
...and Practice 394 of tïir lit*». Ir the humorous observation of Addieon were fuunded in fact, 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, — with other particulars of the like nature," —... | |
 | George Ellis - 1845 - 382 pages
...with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or cholerick disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." Montaigne was certainly of the same... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pages
...have observed," TEN says the Spectator, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a...disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a .like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." There are few men... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...broke, no father disobey'd. 130 NOTES. with his usual humour, is true in tact : " 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1850 - 252 pages
...dehinc mtracula promat. HOR. HAVE obferved, that a Reader feldom perufes a Book with Pleafure, until he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Difpofition, Married or a Bachelor, with other Particulars of the like Nature, that conduce... | |
 | 398 pages
...of creatures, which by name Thou canst not count." — SPENSKR. HAVE observed," says Addison,* "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, •hich... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...or in books. They are shy and sullen. Addison, in the first number of the Spectator, observ&s that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till...disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. Coleridge said, if he... | |
 | 1854 - 888 pages
...somewhere said, that " a reader seldom peruses a book till he knows whether the author of it be « black or a fair man ; of a mild or choleric disposition ; married or bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1852 - 266 pages
...de/iinc miracula promat. HOB. 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 fair Man, of a mild or cholerick 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... 
