...dressed." — Sir Walter Scott (of Lodge's Portraits). " I have observed that a reader seldom pernses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man." — Addison. " From henee the line of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Eome." —...

...one of our standard medical classics, is far beyond any praise or criticism of mine. Mr. Addison says that " a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure,...very much to the right understanding of an author." * I have endeavored, in preceding "Notes," to gratify this excusable curiosity, and have occasionally...

...Spectator is direct and immediate, as Elizabeth C. Cook has neatly shown. "I have observed," Addison began, "that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure...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,...

...the editors sought to overcome. "I have observed," Addison wrote in The Spectator's inaugural issue, "that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure...'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black [dark-complexioned] or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with...

...character of the Spectator is himself designed for that function. Here is his famous introduction: 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...

...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...

...English Libertarian Tradition in the Colonial Newspaper," Journalism Quarterly 45 (1968): 677-86. l 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...

...Spectator for 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...

...debt at the outset without naming his source, used some of the same words: "An ingenious Author has observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, 'till he has a tolerable Notion of the Physiognomy of the Author, the Year of his Birth, & his Manner of living,...

...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...