 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...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 289by Joseph Warton - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1890 - 220 pages
...dazzling miracles. — ROSCOMMOM. 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... | |
 | Theodor Vetter - 1891 - 152 pages
...bes Spectator, wo Slbbifon fagt : "l 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 cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...somehow : having good-will and 1 " I have observed that a reader seldom pernses 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 a... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 164 pages
..." * HORACE, Ars Poetica, ver. 143. 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 302 pages
...FROM "THE SPECTATOR' THE SPECTATOR 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...pace 'Change and the Mall * — * " 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 a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of... | |
 | Anna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson - 1902 - 460 pages
...taking the hint for so doing from the " Spectator." " 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 a like... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1902 - 390 pages
...fame. " I have observed," says this opening essay, " 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 512 pages
...Cogiiat, utfpeciofa debinc miracula promat. Hor. To be Continued every Day. Thurfifay, March I, 1711. I Have obferved, that. a Reader feldom perufes a Book...'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Difpolition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 504 pages
...Cogitat, utfpeciofa debinc miraculapromat. Hor. To be Continued every Day. Thurfiay, March i, 1711. I Hive obferved, that' a Reader feldom perufes a Book with...'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a (air Man, of a mild or cholerick Difpolition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the... | |
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