... Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorCentury Company, 1902 - 108 páginas |
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... means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of an husband , or a father , and can discern the errors ...
... means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of an husband , or a father , and can discern the errors ...
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... mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I must confess I would gratify my reader in anything that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment ...
... mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I must confess I would gratify my reader in anything that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment ...
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... means it becomes a rule , not so much to regard what we do , as how we do it . But this false beauty will not pass upon men of honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore says , with as much good sense as virtue , “ It is a ...
... means it becomes a rule , not so much to regard what we do , as how we do it . But this false beauty will not pass upon men of honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore says , with as much good sense as virtue , “ It is a ...
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... means his domestics are all in years , and grown old with their master . You would take his valet de chambre for his brother ; his butler is gray - headed ; his groom is one of the gravest men that I have ever seen ; and his coach- man ...
... means his domestics are all in years , and grown old with their master . You would take his valet de chambre for his brother ; his butler is gray - headed ; his groom is one of the gravest men that I have ever seen ; and his coach- man ...
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... mean masters often give to worthy servants ; but , it is often to know , what road he took that he came so readily back accord- ing to order ; whether he passed by such a ground ; if the old man who rents it is in good health ; or ...
... mean masters often give to worthy servants ; but , it is often to know , what road he took that he came so readily back accord- ing to order ; whether he passed by such a ground ; if the old man who rents it is in good health ; or ...
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Página 56 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Página 18 - 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 55 - But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 17 - Roger, being a good churchman, has beautified the inside of his church with several texts of his own choosing. He has likewise given a handsome pulpit-cloth, and railed in the communion-table at his own expense. He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a common-prayer book...
Página 75 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel...
Página 75 - ... dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
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 18 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a Bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place: and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the church service, has promised upon the death of the...
Página 17 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon.
Página 14 - This letter, notwithstanding the poor butler's manner of writing it, gave us such an idea of our good old friend, that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club. Sir Andrew opening the book, found it to be a collection of acts of parliament. There was in particular the Act of Uniformity, with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own hand. Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three points which he had disputed with Sir Roger the last time he appeared at the club. Sir...