 | 1836 - 932 σελίδες
...with dazzling miracles, ftoftommon. I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, h Addison a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 σελίδες
...with dazzling miracles. Roscammon. 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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 σελίδες
...humorous observation of Addieon were fuunded in fact, 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, — with other particulars of the like nature," — we should be in a state of some apprehension,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 σελίδες
...usual humour, is true in tact : " 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." What passages in Horace are more agreeable than when he tells... | |
 | 398 σελίδες
...count." — SPENSKR. HAVE observed," says Addison,* "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... | |
 | 1851 - 608 σελίδες
...Addison, in the first number of the Spectator, observ&s 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 a like... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 σελίδες
...world — sitting alone in it 1 " 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 σελίδες
...with dazzling miracles. B060OXMOK. 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... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 σελίδες
...reputation of his departed friend. Mr. Addison remarks, 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 - 1853 - 360 σελίδες
...of the world — sitting alone 1 "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 in it somehow: having... | |
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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... 
