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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... spirit of progress of his day and generation ; that he was not an apt logician nor a connoisseur in art , nor even a poetaster . And yet there remains the fact ― exasperating beyond measure to the critic - that men towards whose ability ...
... spirit of progress of his day and generation ; that he was not an apt logician nor a connoisseur in art , nor even a poetaster . And yet there remains the fact ― exasperating beyond measure to the critic - that men towards whose ability ...
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... spirit of benevolence and with a love to mankind . 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 ...
... spirit of benevolence and with a love to mankind . 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 ...
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... and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own , would endeavor after a handsome elocution , and all those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY . 21.
... and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own , would endeavor after a handsome elocution , and all those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY . 21.
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... spirit that appeared to him in the shape of a black horse without a head ; to which he add- ed that about a month ago one of the maids coming home late that way with a pail of milk upon her head , heard such a rustling among the bushes ...
... spirit that appeared to him in the shape of a black horse without a head ; to which he add- ed that about a month ago one of the maids coming home late that way with a pail of milk upon her head , heard such a rustling among the bushes ...
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... spirits fabulous and groundless : could not I give myself up to this gen- eral testimony of mankind , I should to the relations . of particular persons who are now living , and whom I cannot distrust in other matters of fact . I might ...
... spirits fabulous and groundless : could not I give myself up to this gen- eral testimony of mankind , I should to the relations . of particular persons who are now living , and whom I cannot distrust in other matters of fact . I might ...
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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