 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - Počet stránok 660
...to mingle in that great club of the world — sitting alone in it somehow ; having goodwill and * " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...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 like nature, that conduce... | |
 | 1873 - Počet stránok 756
...PARTS. BY THE REV. J. GORLE. PART I. NE hundred and fifty years have passed away since the Spectator observed that " a reader seldom peruses a book with...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." "... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - Počet stránok 610
...the " Grecian," or the " Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall * — to mmgle in that great club * " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...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 like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - Počet stránok 280
...written by Addison, and opened with a passage which may be quoted as pertinent to the present volume : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an anthor. To... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - Počet stránok 480
...WRITERS OF THE SONGS. We need not go to Joseph Addison to learn that " a reader seldom peruses a book till he knows whether the writer of it be a black...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." "... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1878 - Počet stránok 340
...MOST GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE. " I have observed that a reader seldom peruse? a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." —... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - Počet stránok 480
...commonplace mortals and such persons, in his paraphrase of two noted lines in the Ars Poetica of Horace : " One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke ; Another...expectation high, Surprises us with dazzling miracles." Creativeness is not always associated with originality. John Locke was unmistakably original; but the... | |
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - Počet stránok 284
...are so lively, that mistaking the paper on which they were written, for a piece of bread and butter *"I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author."—"The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - Počet stránok 302
...so lively, that mistaking the paper on which they were written, for a piece of bread and butter * " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author."—"... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - Počet stránok 396
...politer compliments, and his latter will partake of the irrational huzza. Shenstonc, Essays AUTHORS. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. Addison,... | |
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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... 
