Sir Roger de CoverleyTicknor, 1852 - 233 páginas |
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... Face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa - Tree , and in the Theatres both of Drury- Lane and the Hay - Market . I have been taken for a Merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten Years , and sometimes pass for a ...
... Face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa - Tree , and in the Theatres both of Drury- Lane and the Hay - Market . I have been taken for a Merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten Years , and sometimes pass for a ...
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... Face exquisite Joy and Love towards the other . I thought the fainting Figure resembled my Friend Sir ROGER ; and looking at the Butler , who stood by me , for an Account of it , he informed me that the Person in the Livery was a ...
... Face exquisite Joy and Love towards the other . I thought the fainting Figure resembled my Friend Sir ROGER ; and looking at the Butler , who stood by me , for an Account of it , he informed me that the Person in the Livery was a ...
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... Face expanded , and consequently more terrible , and fitter to stand at the ' Entrance of Palaces . ' This Predecessor of ours , you see , is dressed after ' this manner , and his Cheeks would be no larger than ' mine , were he in a Hat ...
... Face expanded , and consequently more terrible , and fitter to stand at the ' Entrance of Palaces . ' This Predecessor of ours , you see , is dressed after ' this manner , and his Cheeks would be no larger than ' mine , were he in a Hat ...
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... Face to the next Portraiture . Sir ROGER went on with his Account of the Gallery in the following manner . This Man ' ( pointing to him I looked at ) ' I take to be the Honour of our ' House , SIR HUMPHREY DE COVERLEY ; he was in ' his ...
... Face to the next Portraiture . Sir ROGER went on with his Account of the Gallery in the following manner . This Man ' ( pointing to him I looked at ) ' I take to be the Honour of our ' House , SIR HUMPHREY DE COVERLEY ; he was in ' his ...
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... good Friend the Butler desired me with a very grave Face not to venture myself in it after Sun - set , for that one of the Footmen had been almost frighted out of his Wits by a Spirit that appear'd to 66 VI The Coverley Ghost.
... good Friend the Butler desired me with a very grave Face not to venture myself in it after Sun - set , for that one of the Footmen had been almost frighted out of his Wits by a Spirit that appear'd to 66 VI The Coverley Ghost.
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Vista completa - 1906 |
Términos y frases comunes
50 cents Abbey Account Addison appears Battle of Steenkirk Behaviour better Boevey called CHAP Chaplain CHAPTER Character Church Club Coffee-house Company Conversation Country Court COVERLEY HALL Daily Courant Discourse Duke of Monmouth Estate Eudoxus Eustace Budgell Family Father followed Fortune Friend Sir ROGER Gentleman give Good-breeding Gray's Inn Hand Head hear heard honest HONEYCOMB Honour House Humour Lady Laertes Lane Leontine lived look Love manner Master Mind Mohocks Moll White Name Nature Neighbourhood never observe Occasion old Friend old Knight ordinary paper particular party passed Person perverse Widow Place Play pleased Pleasure POEMS Price 75 cents Prince publick Pyrrhus ROGER DE COVERLEY says Sir ROGER Servants shew Sir ANDREW FREEPORT Sir Richard Baker speak Spectator Squire Steele Tatler tell thee thing thou thought tion took Tory Town VIRG walking Westminster Abbey Whig whispered White Witch whole Wimble Woman Worcestershire World young
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Página 161 - 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 195 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 163 - 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...
Página 46 - I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Página 18 - 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: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
Página 96 - ... an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.
Página 16 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Página 73 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
Página 137 - Winter. It is the most dead, uncomfortable Time of the Year, when the poor People would suffer very much from their Poverty and Cold, if they had not good Cheer, warm Fires, and Christmas Gambols to support them. I love to rejoyce their poor Hearts at this Season, and to see the whole Village merry in my great Hall.
Página 55 - As soon as I thought my retinue suitable to the character of my fortune and youth, I set out from hence to make my addresses. The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your wishes, and yet command respect. To make her mistress of this art, she has a greater share of knowledge, wit, and good sense than is usual even among men of merit.