 | English poets - 1801 - 444 էջ
...poetical excellence. " 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 much to the right " understanding of an author." Montaigne was... | |
 | 1815 - 892 էջ
...peruses a hook with pleasure^ till he knows "whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, nf a mild or 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 name of Piston... | |
 | 1803 - 420 էջ
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
 | 1803 - 434 էջ
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 էջ
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." I confess I shall read the works of the three great Italian writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 էջ
...a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, 'till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." I will add, at the hazard of its being reckoned a trifling and minute remark, that many of our English... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 էջ
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. ' Postscript. g5 IN... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 էջ
...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 much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,... | |
 | 1810 - 500 էջ
...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 much to the right understanding of an au. thor." (Spec. No. I.)... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 էջ
...Richard Steele/ which comes to the same thing. married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory... | |
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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... 
