...The Advice of The Spectator " I have observed that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure until he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a...very much to the right understanding of an Author." — The Spectator. As the New .Republic says: "It is the gesture of Paul Claudel that sets him apart...

...neatly shown. "I have observed," Addison began, "that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a...very much to the right understanding of an author." Franklin's second sentence was: "And since it is observed, that the Generality of People, now a days,...

...black [dark-complexioned] or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right Understanding of the Author."77 To gratify this natural curiosity, he offered a capsule autobiography that stressed...

...his famous introduction: 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 cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce...

...first issue of Addison's Spectator observed, "a reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, untill he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a...very much to the right understanding of an Author." It would be asking a lot for the signature on the title page to convey all this, and theorists who...

...observed," Joseph Addison had written in 1711, "that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a...very much to the right understanding of an author." He had then gone on, as he put it, "to open the work with my own history." 16 Checkley's version, unlike...

...Quarterly 45 (1968): 677-86. l 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 cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce...

...1 March 1710 begins, 'I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a Book with much Pleasure, till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of mild or choleric Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that...

...Spectator of March 1,1711, 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 cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce...

...Spectator" cannily occupied: "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 cholerick Disposition, Married or a Bachelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce...