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 much... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 219edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...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 much to the right " understanding of an author." Montaigne was certainly... | |
| Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...hook with pleasure^ till he knows "whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, nf a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars' of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.'* The name of Piston is well... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. ' Postscript. g5 IN his conjecture... | |
| 1810 - 500 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an au. thor." (Spec. No. I.) And it was... | |
| 1814 - 580 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an author." (Spec. No. I.) And it was... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...book with pleasure, until 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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
| English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...by the side of their productions; but in the time of Addison it was so prevatent, as to induce "in to remark, that a reader seldom perused a book with...all ages to gratify it. Every writer of biography, I'M 1. 1 1 the time of Tacitus down to that of Moore, has felt bis work to be mcomplete, until he has... | |
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