 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 266 pages
...PREFACE. Non fumum ex fuJgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa 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,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...glorious light, And (without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. B060OXMOK. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pages
...glorious light, And (without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. ROSOOMMON. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1853 - 546 pages
...light, And (without raising expectation high) Surprises DS with dazzling miracles. BoeooHMOit. I HATE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with...very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 pages
...utmost to enhance and preserve the literary reputation of his departed friend. Mr. Addison remarks, that " a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure...very much to the right understanding of an author." Cognizant of this fact, Mr. Aird has prefaced the poetry with a finely written memoir of his friend.... | |
 | 1853 - 756 pages
...And ( without raising expectation high) Surprise* UJ with daziling miracles. — KoacOHXOX. IH ATX observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with ether particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...pace 'Change and the Mall1 — to mingle in that great club of the world — sitting alone in it 1 " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...the Devil; to pace 'Change and the Mall* -— to mingle in that great club of the world — sitting *"I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...the Devil; to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle in that great club of the world — sitting * "I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it beablack or a fair man, of a mild or a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...it somehow: having good- will and kindness for every single man and woman in it — having need of other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory... | |
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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... 
