 | 1789 - 508 páginas
...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 - 444 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting,... | |
 | 1803 - 420 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 páginas
...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...writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...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...writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting,... | |
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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... 
