 | Robert Burton - 1893 - 556 σελίδες
...which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever it is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is...vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers,4 at an antick picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at a judicious piece. And... | |
 | 1900 - 640 σελίδες
...carry more fantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold ; for, as larks...tarry and stand gazing like silly passengers at an antic picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at a judicious piece." In point of fact, our... | |
 | William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 σελίδες
...the figure-head, he says: "It is a kind of policy in these days, to prefix a fantastical title (cut) to a book which is to be sold; for, as larks come...tarry and stand gazing like silly passengers at an antic picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at a judicious piece." Accompanying the figure-head... | |
 | 1911 - 534 σελίδες
...and enjoys it. "It is a kind of policy in these days," he tells you, with his delicious grave irony, "to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is to be sold." He apologizes for venturing on so uncanonical a subject when he might be engaged more decorously, perhaps... | |
 | John Earle - 1920 - 218 σελίδες
...the able pencil of John Earle.' III. THE TITLE OF THE BOOK. ' It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a phantastical -title to a book which is to be sold,' says Burton, apologising to the Reader for 'the title and inscription' of the Anatomy of Melancholy.... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1922 - 232 σελίδες
...have one which contains the Truth about Advertising : Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these dayes to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is...gazing, like silly passengers at an antick picture in a painter's shop, that will not look on a judicious piece. . . . . . . Many men, saith Gellius, are very... | |
 | Anja Müller-Wood - 2007 - 225 σελίδες
...moody Preface to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton remarks on "the kind of policy in these days, to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is to be sold" to entice readers,29 suggesting that audience tastes were superficial and extreme. Printed versions... | |
 | 1840 - 428 σελίδες
...This is the case now. This was the case two hundred years ago. Bnrtonsays. '-It is a kind of policy to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is...larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at... | |
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Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these days, to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is to be sold ; for, as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing like silly passengers at an antic picture in a painter's... 
