 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pages
...dazzling miracies. — ROSCOMMOX. 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, • Of the three periodical papers,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...dazzllng miracles. — KOSCOMUON. 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, • Of the three periodical papers,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...dazzling miraeles.— Bosooiof off. I RAVE 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, • Of the three periodical papers,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 pages
...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 bachelor, with other particulars of the... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 pages
...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 bachelor, with other particulars of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...speciosa dehinc miracula promat. HoB. I HATE 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 - 1856 - 628 pages
...dazzling miracles. — KOSCOMXOH. 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, • Of the three periodical papers,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...dazzling miracles.— EOSOOMMOH. 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, • Of the three periodical papers,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...Addison says, inhis *' Spectator," with playful truth, " 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 inild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a... | |
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