Sir Roger de Coverley, Essays from the SpectatorMacmillan, 1899 - 166 páginas |
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... honesty and an even regular behavior are in themselves obstacles to him that must press through crowds , who endeavor at the same end with himself , the favor of a com- mander . He will , however , in this way of talk , excuse 25 ...
... honesty and an even regular behavior are in themselves obstacles to him that must press through crowds , who endeavor at the same end with himself , the favor of a com- mander . He will , however , in this way of talk , excuse 25 ...
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... honest , worthy man . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company , for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does , it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself . He is a 10 ...
... honest , worthy man . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company , for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does , it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself . He is a 10 ...
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... honest , witty than good- natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the awkward imitation of the rest of mankind . 15 For this reason Sir ...
... honest , witty than good- natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the awkward imitation of the rest of mankind . 15 For this reason Sir ...
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... honest knight was thus bewildering him- self in good starts , I looked intentively upon him , which made him , I thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at , " says he , " is to represent that I am of opinion , to polish our ...
... honest knight was thus bewildering him- self in good starts , I looked intentively upon him , which made him , I thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at , " says he , " is to represent that I am of opinion , to polish our ...
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... honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore says , with as much good sense as virtue , " It is a mighty dishonor and shame to employ 5 excellent faculties and abundance of wit , to humor and please men in their vices and follies ...
... honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore says , with as much good sense as virtue , " It is a mighty dishonor and shame to employ 5 excellent faculties and abundance of wit , to humor and please men in their vices and follies ...
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Sir Roger de Coverley, Essays from the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele Vista completa - 1899 |
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Página 43 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Página 140 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Página 8 - 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 141 - And strait 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...
Página 29 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Página 45 - 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 9 - ... the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company : when he comes into a house, he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit. I must not omit, that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter-session with great abilities, and three months ago gained universal applause by explaining a passage in the game act.
Página 3 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Página 46 - ... than blemish his good qualities. 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 such an one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church ; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.
Página 64 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.