 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 páginas
...that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of the common life and manners of seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows...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 - 1886 - 914 páginas
...Devil ; " to pace 'Change and the Mall * — to mingle * " I have observed that a reader seldom penises a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer...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 gratifv... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 286 páginas
...needs no Bush." — Spectator, No. 221. For further remarks, read Nos. 271 and 296. No. 1. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 143. One with a flash begins and ends in...Surprises us with dazzling miracles.— Roscommon. 2. Juv. Sat. vii. 167. Six more, at least, join their consenting voice. 6. Juv. Sat. xiii. 54. 'Twas... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 páginas
...fumum ex fulgore, se<i ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. — Hor, Ars Poet. ver. 143 One with a flash begins, and ends in...Surprises us with dazzling miracles. —Roscommon. IHAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he know whether the writer of... | |
 | Arthur Blyford Thruston, Edmund Heathcote Thruston - 1900 - 384 páginas
...Demonstration — Death of Hamid Hassin Anob — I Leave Egypt. TV/TR SPECTATOR has told us that "he has observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with...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 - 1900 - 414 páginas
...Grecian," or the " Devil " ; to pace 'Change and the Mall *— to mingle in that great club of the * " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book...knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair 15 man, of mild or a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 264 páginas
...fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat. — HOR. ARS POET. ver. 143. ONE with a flash begins, and ends...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understand- 5 ing of an author.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 302 páginas
...dainty-dressed meat : No wonder if he wished he ne'er had learn'd to eat. FROM "THE SPECTATOR' THE SPECTATOR 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.1 To... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1902 - 390 páginas
...origin of the journal and the men who created its fame. " I have observed," says this opening essay, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." Probably... | |
 | Anna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson - 1902 - 460 páginas
...description of myself, now in the 46th year of my age, taking the hint for so doing from the " Spectator." " A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till...choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a 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... 
