Sir Roger de Coverley: Consisting of the Papers Relating to Sir Roger which Were Originally Published in the SpectatorPutnam, 1877 - 130 páginas |
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... acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behavior , but his singularities proceed from his good sense ; and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the ...
... acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behavior , but his singularities proceed from his good sense ; and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the ...
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... acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade ...
... acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade ...
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... acquaintance and relations , furnished out a very decent execution . Having thus taken my resolutions to march on boldly in the cause of virtue and good sense , and to annoy their adversaries in whatever degree or rank of men they may ...
... acquaintance and relations , furnished out a very decent execution . Having thus taken my resolutions to march on boldly in the cause of virtue and good sense , and to annoy their adversaries in whatever degree or rank of men they may ...
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... acquainted with my humor , 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 ...
... acquainted with my humor , 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 ...
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... acquaintance , and died soon after . I thought this story might not be impertinent in this place , wherein I speak of those kings : besides that , the example deserves to be taken notice of , as it contains a most certain proof of the ...
... acquaintance , and died soon after . I thought this story might not be impertinent in this place , wherein I speak of those kings : besides that , the example deserves to be taken notice of , as it contains a most certain proof of the ...
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acquainted Addison and Steele afterwards agreeable appear beard beautiful behavior better body Captain Sentry chaplain character cheerfulness Club court discourse dressed endeavor esteem followed forbear fox-hunters friend Sir Roger G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS gentleman give Glaphyra hand head hear heard heart honest Honeycomb honor humor justice of peace kind lady Laertes last night list of preachers lives look Lord Rochester maid mankind manner master merit mind Moll White Nævia nature neighbor never observed occasion old friend old knight ordinary paper particular pass passion person pleased pleasure Pyrrhus reader reason Roger de Coverley says Sir Roger sense servants Sir Andrew Freeport Sir George Etherege Sir Richard Baker speak Spectator spirit stood take notice talk tell temper thing thought tion town vice and folly virtue walking Whig whispered whole widow Wimble woman
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Página 62 - so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew. Crook-knee'd and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouths like bells, Each under each: a cry more tuneable Was never halloo'd to, nor cheered with horn.
Página 66 - race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. 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 70 - the poor wretch that is the innocent occasion of so many evils begins to be frightened at herself, and sometimes confesses secret commerce and familiarities that her imagination forms In a delirious old age. This frequently cuts off charity from the greatest objects of compassion, and inspires people with a malevolence toward those poor
Página 2 - Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him a youngster. But being
Página 19 - 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. My worthy friend
Página 2 - The gentleman next in esteem and authority among us, is another bachelor, who is a member of the Inner Temple ; a man of great probity, wit and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humorsome father, than in
Página 103 - Supplement," with such an air of cheerfulness and good-humor, that all the boys in the coffee-room (who seemed to take pleasure in serving him) were at once employed on his several errands : insomuch that no body else could come at a dish of tea, till the knight had got all his conveniencies about him.
Página 77 - hare or a pheasant. He knocks down a dinner with his gun twice or thrice a week ; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an estate as himself. He would be a good neighbor if he did not destroy so many
Página 36 - exceedingly solemn and venerable. These objects naturally raise seriousness and attention ; and when night heightens the awfulness of the place, and pours out her supernumerary horrors upon everything in it, I do not at all wonder that weak minds fill it with spectres and apparitions. Mr. Locke, in his chapter on the Association of Ideas, has
Página 17 - MONDAY, July 2,1711. HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither; and am settled with him for some time at his