 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 σελίδες
...to 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 choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1890 - 220 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Theodor Vetter - 1891 - 152 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 252 σελίδες
...dazzling miracles. — Eoscommon. 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 164 σελίδες
..." * 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 - 1902 - 302 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1902 - 390 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Anna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson - 1902 - 460 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 444 σελίδες
...side."— BRYCE: The American Commonwealth. Yet the fact noted above remains generally true. 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... | |
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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... 
