 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...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 289by Joseph Warton - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Manchester (England). Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 - 1857 - 338 lehte
...Walter Scott (of Lodge's Portraits). " 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." — Addison. " From henee the line of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic... | |
 | 1859 - 792 lehte
...praise or criticism of mine. Mr. Addison says 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... | |
 | 1859 - 244 lehte
...first paper in 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 a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 lehte
...spectator" remark, rather in joke than earnest, "that the 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... | |
 | Carl Johann P. Spitta - 1860 - 174 lehte
...recreation and fweeteft folace of my leifure hours. Addifon remarks, in one of the papers of the SpettatoT) that " a reader feldom perufes a book with pleafure...till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric difpofition, married, or a bachelor, with other particulars of a... | |
 | 1863 - 394 lehte
...paper of the Spectator, that he had observed that ' a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 lehte
...and the Mall 1 — to mingle 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 a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 lehte
...Spectator remark, rather in joke than earnest, 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 bar-hoior, with other particulars of the... | |
 | 1868 - 808 lehte
...being of Addison's opinion, in the Spectator, " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 lehte
...the Mall*— to mingle in that * " 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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