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 like nature, that conduce very... The Spectator - Strona 2autor: Joseph Addison - 1870Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| 1739 - Liczba stron: 330
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| 1789 - Liczba stron: 508
...death or refignation of one chancellor, and the nomination of another. VOL. I. B ried or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right underftanding of an author. To gratify this curiofity, which is fo natural to a reader, I defign this... | |
| 1816 - Liczba stron: 548
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| English poets - 1801 - Liczba stron: 444
...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...very much to the right " understanding of an author." Montaigne was certainly of the same opinion ; and Chaucer, though he has told us nothing of his birth,... | |
| 1815 - Liczba stron: 892
...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 is well known in this country ; but it may conduce somewhat " tt> the right understanding"... | |
| 1803 - Liczba stron: 420
...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...gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, 1 design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - Liczba stron: 498
...till he knows whether the 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,... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - Liczba stron: 692
...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 his conjecture about the identity of my person and character, I can assure him... | |
| 1810 - Liczba stron: 500
...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.) And it was said of TOM BROWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems... | |
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