 | 1881 - Počet stránok 336
...visits to the Court. We are fully of the opinion of that keen observer who wrote many years ago, " 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," and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - Počet stránok 874
...smoking-room at the " Grecian," or the " Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle • " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1883 - Počet stránok 420
...authority of a rule of Horace which your Son perfectly understands, and which, translated, is this— ' One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke. Another...expectation high. Surprises us with dazzling miracles.' With respect to the Dedication I always thought that if an Individual of Consequence could have been... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - Počet stránok 200
...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." READINGS FROM THE SPECTATOR. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1. 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. To... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - Počet stránok 664
...smoking-room at the "Grecian," or the " Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall * — to mingle • "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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - Počet stránok 416
...sit in the smoking-room at the " Grecian," or the " Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall *— * " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - Počet stránok 572
...in the smoking-room at the Grecian43), or the Devil;43) to pace 'Change and the Mall*)43) — to *) "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 the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - Počet stránok 876
...smoking-room at the " Grecian." or the " Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle * " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or n bachelor ; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding... | |
 | Conyngham Crawford Taylor - 1886 - Počet stránok 402
...march of progress, and this it will be my endeavor to show to the best of my ability. Early Days. " I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man." — Addison. My uncle, Dr. Conyngham Crawford, having refused to accept a commission in the British... | |
 | Conyngham Crawford Taylor - 1886 - Počet stránok 380
...march of progress, and this it will be my endeavor to show to the best of my ability. Early Days. " I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man."—Addison. My uncle, Dr. Conyngham Crawford, having refused to accept a commission in the British... | |
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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... 
