 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of "Jhe book is a picture ; the second is a story ; Kn° third a jest. Here then is the true Pons Asinorum,...which very few readers ever get over. From what I have sa/d it may perhaps be thought to appear, that true taste is the real gift of nature only ; and if... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a } : " ! show men that they are without a blessing which it is impossible for them to attain ? Now, though it... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 462 pages
...The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture ; the second is a story ; and the third is a jest. Here then is the true Pons Asinorum which...some may ask, to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing, which it is impossible for them to attain ? Now, though... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 518 pages
...The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture ; the second is a story ; and the third is a jest. Here then is the true Pons Asinorum which...some may ask, to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing, which it is impossible for them to attain ? Now, though... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture, the second is a story, and the third a jest. Here then is the true Pone Asinorum, which very few readers ever get over. From what I have said it may perhaps be thought... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 278 pages
...they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture, the second is a story, and the third a jest....some may ask to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing which it is impossible for them to attain ? Now, though it... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture, the second is a story, and the third a jest....only; and if so, some may ask to what purpose have I endeavored to show men that they are without a blessing which it is impossible for them to attain ?... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902 - 266 pages
...they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture, the second is a story, and the third a jest....some may ask to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing which it is impossible for them to attain ? Now, though it... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 366 pages
...The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture; the second is a story; and the third is a jest. Here then is the true Pons Asinorum which...some may ask, to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing, which it is impossible for them to attain? Now, though it... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 358 pages
...in a book is a picture; the second is a story; and the third is a jest. Here then is the true Pens Asinorum which very few readers ever get over. From...some may ask, to what purpose have I endeavoured to show men that they are without a blessing, which it is impossible for them to attain? Now, though it... | |
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But as for the bulk of mankind, they are clearly void of any degree of taste. It is a quality in which they advance very little beyond a state of infancy. The first thing a child is fond of in a book is a picture, the second is a story, and the third... 
