The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorD.C. Heath & Company, 1899 - 208 páginas |
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... thee a copious show'r , Rich honours of the quiet plain . HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country , I last week accompanied him thither , and am settled with ...
... thee a copious show'r , Rich honours of the quiet plain . HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country , I last week accompanied him thither , and am settled with ...
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... thee while thou dost stay . dost not more depend upon her than does her William ; her absence will make away with me as well as thee . If 5 she offers to remove thee , I will jump into these waves to lay hold on thee herself , her own ...
... thee while thou dost stay . dost not more depend upon her than does her William ; her absence will make away with me as well as thee . If 5 she offers to remove thee , I will jump into these waves to lay hold on thee herself , her own ...
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... thee picking up daisies , or smelling to a lock of hay , or passing away thy time in some innocent coun- try diversion of the like nature . I have however orders from the club to summon thee up to town , being all of us cursedly afraid ...
... thee picking up daisies , or smelling to a lock of hay , or passing away thy time in some innocent coun- try diversion of the like nature . I have however orders from the club to summon thee up to town , being all of us cursedly afraid ...
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... thee , that if I have the giving her , I shall not bestow her on thee . Thy mirth , friend , savoureth of folly ; thou art a person of a light mind ; 15 thy drum is a type of thee - it soundeth because it is empty . Verily , it is not ...
... thee , that if I have the giving her , I shall not bestow her on thee . Thy mirth , friend , savoureth of folly ; thou art a person of a light mind ; 15 thy drum is a type of thee - it soundeth because it is empty . Verily , it is not ...
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... thee in this public vehicle , is in some degree assaulting on the high road . " Here Ephraim paused , and the captain with a happy and uncommon impudence ( which can be convicted and 5 support itself at the same time ) cries , " Faith ...
... thee in this public vehicle , is in some degree assaulting on the high road . " Here Ephraim paused , and the captain with a happy and uncommon impudence ( which can be convicted and 5 support itself at the same time ) cries , " Faith ...
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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 26 - ... he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason, he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Página xx - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 43 - ... 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 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 171 - ... poor man's friend. Upon his coming home, the first complaint he made was, that he had lost his roast-beef stomach, not being able to touch a sirloin, which was served up according to custom; and you know he used to take great delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good heart to the last. Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery upon a kind message that was sent him from the widow lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life,...
Página 74 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Página 171 - 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...
Página 47 - 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 a 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 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 8 - 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.