Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the SpectatorMaynard Merrill, 1906 - 269 páginas |
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... turned into a new channel . At the very end of Charles's reign the press and literature generally had freed itself from Court censorship . They at once became a great power in the country , and either party was anxious to secure writers ...
... turned into a new channel . At the very end of Charles's reign the press and literature generally had freed itself from Court censorship . They at once became a great power in the country , and either party was anxious to secure writers ...
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... turned , and of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually enter- 5 tain women . He has all his life dressed very well , and remembers habits as others do men . He can smile when one speaks to him ...
... turned , and of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually enter- 5 tain women . He has all his life dressed very well , and remembers habits as others do men . He can smile when one speaks to him ...
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... turned into ridicule , by the meanness of their conditions and circumstances . He afterward proceeded to take 25 notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public , by reprehending those vices which are too trivial for the ...
... turned into ridicule , by the meanness of their conditions and circumstances . He afterward proceeded to take 25 notice of the great use this paper might be of to the public , by reprehending those vices which are too trivial for the ...
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... turning over a great many of her books , which were ranged together in a very beautiful order . At the end of the folios ( which were finely bound and gilt ) were great jars of china 3 placed one above another in a very noble piece of ...
... turning over a great many of her books , which were ranged together in a very beautiful order . At the end of the folios ( which were finely bound and gilt ) were great jars of china 3 placed one above another in a very noble piece of ...
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... turned all the passions of her sex into a love of books and retire- ment . She converses chiefly with men ( as she has often said herself ) , but it is only in their writings ; 20 and admits of very few male visitants , 33 except my ...
... turned all the passions of her sex into a love of books and retire- ment . She converses chiefly with men ( as she has often said herself ) , but it is only in their writings ; 20 and admits of very few male visitants , 33 except my ...
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Página 54 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves.
Página 80 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces amen...
Página 141 - Roger, upon seeing me laugh, desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise. I at first kept my usual silence; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not still more like himself than' a Saracen, I composed my countenance in the best manner I could, and replied, that ' much might be said on both sides.
Página 231 - 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-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Página 33 - When he has talked to this Purpose I never heard him make a sour Expression, but frankly confess that he left the World, because he was not fit for it. A strict Honesty and an even Regular...
Página 56 - Roger, found me out this gentleman; who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years, and though he does...
Página 57 - I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Página 83 - I can never come into it, but the same tender sentiments revive in my mind as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades. I have been fool enough to carve her name on the bark of several of these trees ; so unhappy is the condition of men in love to attempt the removing of their passion by the methods which serve only to imprint it deeper. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world.
Página 80 - 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 79 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being.