The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the SpectatorScott, Foresman and Company, 1903 - 249 páginas |
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... Country Squire 19. The Church . 20. The Whigs and the Tories 21. The War 22. Pamphleteers 23. Journalists 24. The Spectator Again 25. Joseph Addison • ***** 8287812858 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38 PAGE 39 40 41 26. Addison at the Coffee - 9.
... Country Squire 19. The Church . 20. The Whigs and the Tories 21. The War 22. Pamphleteers 23. Journalists 24. The Spectator Again 25. Joseph Addison • ***** 8287812858 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38 PAGE 39 40 41 26. Addison at the Coffee - 9.
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... Church ; or , if the estates of the father had been comparatively small , they might without disgrace try law or medicine . Meanwhile , their elder brothers kept up the honor of the family name . 15. Travel Many landlords , however ...
... Church ; or , if the estates of the father had been comparatively small , they might without disgrace try law or medicine . Meanwhile , their elder brothers kept up the honor of the family name . 15. Travel Many landlords , however ...
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... Church . Besides its rents to the landlords , every farm had to pay one - tenth of its yearly produce to the support of the Church . This Church was a great political institution . Membership in it , like the oath to support the ...
... Church . Besides its rents to the landlords , every farm had to pay one - tenth of its yearly produce to the support of the Church . This Church was a great political institution . Membership in it , like the oath to support the ...
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... churches . Even of those who lived in their parishes , a large number gave most of their time to farming , hunting ... church belonged usually to some landed proprietor , who exercised it to repay a political favor , to push the ...
... churches . Even of those who lived in their parishes , a large number gave most of their time to farming , hunting ... church belonged usually to some landed proprietor , who exercised it to repay a political favor , to push the ...
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... Church . The Whig was a bigoted Protestant , and suspected his opponents of being Roman Catholics . Both parties were led by great rival families who handed down their intense jealousies of one another from genera- tion INTRODUCTION 33 ...
... Church . The Whig was a bigoted Protestant , and suspected his opponents of being Roman Catholics . Both parties were led by great rival families who handed down their intense jealousies of one another from genera- tion INTRODUCTION 33 ...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Vista completa - 1906 |
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Página 41 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 107 - 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 commonprayer book, and at the same time employed an itinerant singing master, who goes about the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms...
Página 57 - 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 humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Página 107 - 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 servant to them.
Página 221 - And straight conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake, Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness ; but shall see her gain'd By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld By parents, or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Página 80 - I am the more at ease in Sir ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Página 108 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then inquires how...
Página 56 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 82 - 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. He then...
Página 60 - He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...