 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 σελίδες
...WRITERS OF THE SONGS. We need not go to Joseph Addison to learn that " a reader seldom peruses a book 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 280 σελίδες
...pertinent to the present volume : " 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... | |
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 284 σελίδες
...for a piece of bread and butter *"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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - 302 σελίδες
...a piece of bread and butter * " 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... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 σελίδες
...huzza. Shenstonc, Essays AUTHORS. 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... | |
 | 1881 - 336 σελίδες
...observer who wrote many years ago, " 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 - 1882 - 874 σελίδες
...and the Mall* — to mingle • " 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 a... | |
 | Alfred Charles Garratt - 1884 - 262 σελίδες
...ALCHEMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ? " 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." — ADDISON. THE following paragraphs are taken from the title-page and preface of an old book by John... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 σελίδες
...THE SPECTATOR. 1. INTRODUCTION. 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 choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 664 σελίδες
...and the Mall * — to mingle • "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... | |
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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... 
