... Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorCentury Company, 1902 - 108 páginas |
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... stood , out of countenance , to the whole audience . The frolic went round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes ...
... stood , out of countenance , to the whole audience . The frolic went round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes ...
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... stood , out of countenance , to the whole audience . The frolic went round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes ...
... stood , out of countenance , to the whole audience . The frolic went round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes ...
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... stood by me , for an account of it , he informed me that the person in the livery was a servant of Sir Roger's , who stood on the shore while his master was swimming , 20 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
... stood by me , for an account of it , he informed me that the person in the livery was a servant of Sir Roger's , who stood on the shore while his master was swimming , 20 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
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From the Spectator Joseph Addison. stood on the shore while his master was swimming , and ob- serving him taken with some sudden illness , and sink under water , jumped in and saved him . He told me Sir Roger took off the dress he was in ...
From the Spectator Joseph Addison. stood on the shore while his master was swimming , and ob- serving him taken with some sudden illness , and sink under water , jumped in and saved him . He told me Sir Roger took off the dress he was in ...
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... stood before it , he entered into the matter , after his blunt way of saying things as they occur to his imagination , without regular introduction , or care to pre- serve the appearance of chain of thought . " It is , " said he ...
... stood before it , he entered into the matter , after his blunt way of saying things as they occur to his imagination , without regular introduction , or care to pre- serve the appearance of chain of thought . " It is , " said he ...
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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...