 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 the like nature, that conduce very...  The Spectator - Σελίδα 2των Joseph Addison - 1870Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1789 - 508 σελίδες
...death or refignation of one chancellor, and the nomination of another. VOL. I. B ried or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right underftanding of an author. To gratify this curiofity, which is fo natural to a reader, I defign this... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 σελίδες
...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...very much to the right " understanding of an author." Montaigne was certainly of the same opinion ; and Chaucer, though he has told us nothing of his birth,... | |
 | 1815 - 892 σελίδες
...the writer of it be a black or a fair man, nf a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars' of the like nature that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author.'* The name of Piston is well known in this country ; but it may conduce somewhat " tt> the right understanding"... | |
 | 1803 - 420 σελίδες
...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...gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, 1 design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 σελίδες
...till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 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 author." I confess I shall read the works of the three great Italian writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 σελίδες
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. ' Postscript. g5 IN his conjecture about the identity of my person and character, I can assure him... | |
 | 1810 - 500 σελίδες
...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 much to the right understanding of an au. thor." (Spec. No. I.) And it was said of TOM BROWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems... | |
 | 1814 - 580 σελίδες
...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 much to the right understanding of an author." (Spec. No. I.) And it was •aid of TOM BKOWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems did not... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 σελίδες
...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...prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall Sjive some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 σελίδες
...married or a batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the light understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,...which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper, as a prefatory disl course to my following writings. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting,... | |
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