 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
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 284 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 pages
...becomes the " Younger Xenophon " to be. "A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure," says Addison, " till 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 - 1885 - 416 pages
...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 a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of... | |
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