The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorAppleton, 1901 - 217 páginas |
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... kind , in hopes of obtaining the character of a pretty fellow . " Hogarth's picture , " The Laughing Audience , " gives an idea of the arrangement of an eighteenth - cen- tury theater . Perhaps the most absurd custom of all was that of ...
... kind , in hopes of obtaining the character of a pretty fellow . " Hogarth's picture , " The Laughing Audience , " gives an idea of the arrangement of an eighteenth - cen- tury theater . Perhaps the most absurd custom of all was that of ...
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... kind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever meddling with any practical but already London and the bigger towns were crowded with coffee ...
... kind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever meddling with any practical but already London and the bigger towns were crowded with coffee ...
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... kind glance or 170 a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up : " He has good blood in his veins ; Tom ...
... kind glance or 170 a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up : " He has good blood in his veins ; Tom ...
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... kind , put me in mind of that which the Roman trium- virate were formerly engaged in , for their destruction . Every man at first stood hard for his friend , till they found that by this means they should spoil their pro- 115. put me in ...
... kind , put me in mind of that which the Roman trium- virate were formerly engaged in , for their destruction . Every man at first stood hard for his friend , till they found that by this means they should spoil their pro- 115. put me in ...
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... kind of 25 square , consisting of one of the prettiest grotesque works that ever I saw , and made up of scaramouches , lions , monkeys , mandarins , trees , shells , and a thousand other odd figures in China ware . In the midst of 58 ...
... kind of 25 square , consisting of one of the prettiest grotesque works that ever I saw , and made up of scaramouches , lions , monkeys , mandarins , trees , shells , and a thousand other odd figures in China ware . In the midst of 58 ...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Vista completa - 1906 |
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Página 35 - 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 much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 87 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Página 42 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 82 - The Ideas of Goblins and Sprights have really no more to do with Darkness than Light : Yet let but a foolish Maid inculcate these often on the Mind of a Child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but Darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful Ideas, and they shall be so joined that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Página 64 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons ; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants ; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him ; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Página 65 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him ; so that, when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humor, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with : on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Página 64 - Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen of the country come to see him, he only shows me at a distance.
Página 39 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Página 87 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Página 66 - Roger, found me out this gentleman who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does...