Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the SpectatorMaynard Merrill, 1906 - 269 páginas |
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... pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole , and a whole which has the interest of a novel . It must be remembered too that at that time no novel , giving a lively and powerful pic- ture of the common life and ...
... pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole , and a whole which has the interest of a novel . It must be remembered too that at that time no novel , giving a lively and powerful pic- ture of the common life and ...
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... pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to speak with his noble , natural 1 Three times , nos . 116 , 331 , 359 . voice . He came , the gentle satirist who hit CRITICAL OPINIONS 17.
... pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to speak with his noble , natural 1 Three times , nos . 116 , 331 , 359 . voice . He came , the gentle satirist who hit CRITICAL OPINIONS 17.
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... pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 3 or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor , with other par- ticulars of the like nature , that conduce very much 5 to the right understanding ...
... pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black 3 or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor , with other par- ticulars of the like nature , that conduce very much 5 to the right understanding ...
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... trader of good sense is pleasanter company than a general scholar ; and Sir Andrew having a natural unaffected eloquence , the perspicuity of his discourse gives the same pleasure that 32 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS [ No. 2.
... trader of good sense is pleasanter company than a general scholar ; and Sir Andrew having a natural unaffected eloquence , the perspicuity of his discourse gives the same pleasure that 32 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS [ No. 2.
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... pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortune himself ; and says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; 5 . though at the same time I can say this ...
... pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortune himself ; and says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; 5 . though at the same time I can say this ...
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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 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 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 107 - Koger ; and shall prescribe .the moderate use of this exercise to all my country friends, as the best kind of physic for mending a bad constitution, and preserving a good one.
Página 74 - ... birds which seldom make their appearance till the dusk of the evening. The place was formerly a churchyard, and has still several marks in it of graves and buryingplaces. There is such an echo among the old ruins and vaults, that if you stamp but a little louder than ordinary, you hear the sound repeated. At the same time the walk of elms, with the croaking of the ravens which from time to time are heard from the tops of them, looks exceeding solemn and venerable.
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 35 - He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. 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...
Página 33 - ROGER, he has quitted a Way of Life in which no Man can rise suitably to his Merit, who is not something of a Courtier as well as a Soldier. I have heard him often lament; that in a Profession where Merit is placed in so conspicuous a View, Impudence should get the Better of Modesty. When he...
Página 81 - 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 233 - As we most of us are grown gray-headed in our dear master's service, he has left us pensions and legacies, which we may live very comfortably upon the remaining part of our days. He has bequeathed a great deal more in charity, which is not yet come to my knowledge: and it is peremptorily said in the parish...