 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 sivua
...no less truth than humour in the well-known observation of Addison. He says, " I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till...or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 sivua
...book. What Addison says in jest, and with his usual humour, is true in fact : "I have observed 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, married or a bachelor." I will add, at the hazard of its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 sivua
...iifual humour, is true in faA : " 1 have obfervcd that a reader feldom perules a book with pleafure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric difpofhion, married or a bachelor." What paffages in Horace are more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 sivua
...ufual humour, is true in fa& : " I have obferved that a reader feldom peruies a book with pleafurc till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric difpofition, manied or a bachelor." What paflages in Horace are more... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 sivua
...ufual humour, is true in faft : " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleafore till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric difpofition, manied or a bachelor." What paflages in Horace are more... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 sivua
...on this occasion. I 1 HAVEobserved (says he) that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure,till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 sivua
...Spectators. He fays, ' I have obfervcd that a reader fel' dom perufes a book with pleafure, until ' he knows whether the writer of it be a ' black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric ' difpofition, with other particulars of the ' like nature, that conduce very much to f the right underftanding... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 sivua
...(without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. ROSCOMMON. i HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is... | |
 | 1810 - 500 sivua
...frankly and decently as possible. ADD1SON has observed, in corroboration of your arguments, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...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 said of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 sivua
...exfalgore, sed exfumo dare lucem. Cogitat, .nt speciosa dchinc miracula promat. HoR. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, * Of the threc periodical papers, in which Mr. Addison was 'happily induced to bear a part, the only... | |
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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... 
