 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pagine
...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 certainly of the same opinion ; and Chaucer, though he has told us nothing of his birth,... | |
 | 1815 - 892 pagine
...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 - 434 pagine
...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...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pagine
...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 - 498 pagine
...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 - 692 pagine
...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 - 500 pagine
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pagine
...projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele, which comes to the same thing. married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pagine
...projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele/ which comes to the same thing. married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pagine
...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... | |
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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... 
