 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
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 280 pages
...written by Addison, and opened with a passage which may be quoted as pertinent to the present volume : " 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... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1875 - 480 pages
...WRITERS OF THE SONGS. We need not go to Joseph Addison to learn that " a reader seldom peruses a book 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...promat. HOR. Ars Poet. 143. 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 choleric disposition, married or a batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Joseph Addison - American essays - 1904 - 272 pages
...ADDISON.] Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. HOR. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 1 or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - American essays - 1904 - 286 pages
...ADDISON.] Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. HOR. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black1 or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...1711. Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. Hor. I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or cholerick disposition, married or a batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Arlo Bates - Literature - 1906 - 268 pages
...by knowing about the facts of a writer's life. At the beginning of the " Spectator "Addison remarks: 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...Nonfumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare luceni Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. — HOR. 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 5 other particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...fulgori, ud ex fumo dare lutem Cogitat, ut sptoiosa dehine miradula promat. — EOR. An Poet. 143. I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a 5 mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1906 - 284 pages
...fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat.a Hor. Ars Poet. ver. 143. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 3 or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of... | |
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