| John O. Jordan, Robert L. Patten - 2003 - 358 str.
...mentioning it directly from the visually anonymous position that "the Spectator" cannily occupied: "I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Bachelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
| Leo Bogart - 1995 - 401 str.
...characterize most media reportage on the arts. Joseph Addison wrote in The Spectator of March 1,1711, I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
| John Steinbeck - 1997 - 244 str.
...Horace. I remember so well loving Addison's use of capital letters for nouns. He writes under this date: "I have observed that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the... | |
| Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 str.
...his spectator provide autobiographical information in the first essay (Tuesday, 1 March 1711) because "I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...Man, of a mild or choleric Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right Understanding... | |
| Dean King - 2001 - 436 str.
...caustic jab at an innocent public: As to the personal side, the Spectator for March 1st 1710 begins, "I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other particulars of the... | |
| Robert Bage - 2002 - 396 str.
...essay of The Spectator, a periodical he wrote with Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), with the observation that "a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure,...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 str.
...apparent from the outset of the Silence Dogood essays. In Addison's first Spectator essay, he wrote: "I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book...mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ..." Franklin likewise began his first Dogood essay by justifying an autobiographical introduction... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 str.
...mind. The echoes of Addison are apparent from the outset. In Addison's first Spectator essay, he wrote, "I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure 'til he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition,... | |
| Thomas Alan King - 2004 - 388 str.
...the essays are positioned not simply as objects of a regulating gaze, but as spectators themselves: "I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like Nature, that conduce... | |
| Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 str.
...humour, is true in fac~l : — " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleafure, 'till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or cholerick difpofition, married or a batchelor." I will add, at the hazard of... | |
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