The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorD.C. Heath & Company, 1903 - 208 páginas |
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... influence upon the progress of our dramatic literature . " Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature , II , 603 . 8 English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century . thoughts and feelings , we must still turn if we X INTRODUCTION .
... influence upon the progress of our dramatic literature . " Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature , II , 603 . 8 English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century . thoughts and feelings , we must still turn if we X INTRODUCTION .
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From the Spectator Joseph Addison William Henry Hudson. thoughts and feelings , we must still turn if we would gain at first - hand some clear idea of his character . Steele was not cast in the heroic mould . He was a man of many ...
From the Spectator Joseph Addison William Henry Hudson. thoughts and feelings , we must still turn if we would gain at first - hand some clear idea of his character . Steele was not cast in the heroic mould . He was a man of many ...
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... thoughts every morning , for the benefit of my contemporaries : and if I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live , I shall leave it when I am 10 summoned out of it , with the secret ...
... thoughts every morning , for the benefit of my contemporaries : and if I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live , I shall leave it when I am 10 summoned out of it , with the secret ...
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... thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for con- versation . His taste of books is a little too just for the 15 age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs ...
... thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for con- versation . His taste of books is a little too just for the 15 age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs ...
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... thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at , " says he , “ is , to represent , that I am of opinion , to polish our understandings and neglect our manners is of all things the most inexcusable . Reason should govern passion ...
... thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at , " says he , “ is , to represent , that I am of opinion , to polish our understandings and neglect our manners is of all things the most inexcusable . Reason should govern passion ...
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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 171 - ... poor man's friend. Upon his coming home, the first complaint he made was, that he had lost his roast-beef stomach, not being able to touch a sirloin, which was served up according to custom; and you know he used to take great delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good heart to the last. Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery upon a kind message that was sent him from the widow lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life,...
Página 74 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Página 49 - 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 such a one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.
Página 171 - Knowing that you was my old Master's good Friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy News of his Death, which has afflicted the whole Country, as well as his poor Servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our Lives. I am afraid he caught his Death the last County...
Página 8 - 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 48 - 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 152 - Abbey. For my own part, I could not but be pleased to see the Knight show such an honest passion for the glory of his country, and such a respectful gratitude to the memory of its princes. I must not omit that the benevolence of my good old friend, which flows out towards every one he converses with, made him very kind to our interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary man; for which reason he shook him by the hand at parting, telling him that he should be very glad to see him at his lodgings...
Página 25 - ... 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...
Página 8 - 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 70 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.