Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the SpectatorMacmillan, 1922 - 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 . 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 . 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 Papers in the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Vista completa - 1906 |
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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. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
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 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 43 - ... upon indifferent 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 150 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies and the gifts of charity which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old housedog that you know my poor master was so fond of.
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 32 - 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.
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 7 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him.
Página 29 - Humour, and none so much as the Person whom he diverts himself with: On the Contrary, if he coughs or betrays any Infirmity of old Age, it is easy for a Standerby to observe a secret Concern in the Looks of all his Servants.