 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 頁
...And (without raising expectations high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. — KOSCOMXOH. 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... | |
 | 1859 - 244 頁
...some account of mine. Addison says, at the beginning of his first paper in the Spectator, " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 頁
...smoking-room at the Grecian, or the Devil ; to pace 'Change and the Mall 1 — to mingle 1 ' 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 頁
...Devil; to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle in that great club of the world — sitting * "I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it beablack or a fair man, of a mild or a choleric disposition, married... | |
 | 1868 - 400 頁
...In his humorous account of himself in his first paper, that very agreeable gentleman says, " I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the author of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...smoking-room at the " Grecian," or the "Devil;" to pace 'Change and the Mall*— to mingle in that * " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...smoking-room at the " Grecian," or the "Devil;" to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle in that * " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 頁
...smoking-room at the " Grecian," or the "Devil;" to pace 'Change and the Mall*— to mingle in that * " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 頁
...at the " Grecian," or the " Devil j" to pace 'Change and the Mall* — to mingle in that * " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 頁
...mingle in that great club of the world — sitting alone in it somehow ; having goodwill and * " 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... | |
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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... 
