 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...  Miscellanies... - Page 109by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...glorious light, And, (without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. Roscammon. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...more we are interested in a work when we know something of the author. " I have observed," says he, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...more we are interested in a work when we know something of the author. " I have observed," says he, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...more we are interested in a work when we know something of the author. " I have observed," says he, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars... | |
 | Pedestrian, John Aiton - Germany - 1842 - 406 pages
...book with pleasure, until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with...very much to the right understanding of an author." If this feeling required to be gratified in the readers of mere moral essays, much more so is it likely... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 pages
...Preaching 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," —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...idle trade, No duty 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...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 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 fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a .like nature, that conduce... | |
 | 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
...kind of creatures, which by name Thou canst not count." — SPENSKR. HAVE observed," says Addison,* "that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure,...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... | |
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