The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the SpectatorGinn, 1899 - 178 páginas |
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... literature and politics , since it is in a peculiar sense the product of the age in which it was written . It is hoped that the student may find in the English of the essays , with its few old forms , an easy and pleasant introduction ...
... literature and politics , since it is in a peculiar sense the product of the age in which it was written . It is hoped that the student may find in the English of the essays , with its few old forms , an easy and pleasant introduction ...
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... LITERATURE xii xvi xix XX V. THE TATLER AND SPECTATOR AND THEIR PREDE- CESSORS . xxi VI . THE PUBLIC TO WHICH THE SPECTATOR AP- PEALED xxiii VII . ADDISON AND STEELE AS WRITERS OF THE SPECTATOR XXV VIII . CHARACTERISTICS OF QUEEN ANNE ...
... LITERATURE xii xvi xix XX V. THE TATLER AND SPECTATOR AND THEIR PREDE- CESSORS . xxi VI . THE PUBLIC TO WHICH THE SPECTATOR AP- PEALED xxiii VII . ADDISON AND STEELE AS WRITERS OF THE SPECTATOR XXV VIII . CHARACTERISTICS OF QUEEN ANNE ...
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... literature gave him a reputation for classical learning that extended to the literary circles of London , and brought him into connection with Dryden , an old man , but still the acknowledged leader of the literary set . While connected ...
... literature gave him a reputation for classical learning that extended to the literary circles of London , and brought him into connection with Dryden , an old man , but still the acknowledged leader of the literary set . While connected ...
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Joseph Addison Mary Elizabeth Litchfield. devoted student of literature . His intellect was quickened by intercourse with able and cultivated men , among whom may probably be included the famous French writers , Male- branche and Boileau ...
Joseph Addison Mary Elizabeth Litchfield. devoted student of literature . His intellect was quickened by intercourse with able and cultivated men , among whom may probably be included the famous French writers , Male- branche and Boileau ...
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... the close of his political career . It is chiefly because of the Tatler and the Spectator that Steele occupies an important place in English literature . - After the Spectator was discontinued he published the Guard- xviii INTRODUCTION .
... the close of his political career . It is chiefly because of the Tatler and the Spectator that Steele occupies an important place in English literature . - After the Spectator was discontinued he published the Guard- xviii INTRODUCTION .
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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 157 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Página xxvii - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Página 130 - ... find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Página 45 - 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 servant to them.
Página 46 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Página 6 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty ; keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 41 - 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 6 - 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 46 - 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 25 - 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...