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 - الصفحة 2بواسطة Joseph Addison - 1870عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
| English poets - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
| 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...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." (Spec. No. I.) And it was •aid of TOM BKOWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems did not... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...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...prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall Sjive some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...married or a batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the light understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity,...which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper, as a prefatory disl course to my following writings. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting,... | |
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