The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorD.C. Heath & Company, 1903 - 208 páginas |
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... served , he is so good a husband , and knows so thor- 10 oughly that the skill of the purse is the cardinal virtue of this life ; I say he knows so well that frugality is the sup- port of generosity , that he can often spare a large ...
... served , he is so good a husband , and knows so thor- 10 oughly that the skill of the purse is the cardinal virtue of this life ; I say he knows so well that frugality is the sup- port of generosity , that he can often spare a large ...
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... served with some concern , the last time I saw you upon the bowl- ing - green , that your whip wanted a lash to it ; I will bring half a dozen with me that I twisted last week , which I hope will serve you all the time you are in the ...
... served with some concern , the last time I saw you upon the bowl- ing - green , that your whip wanted a lash to it ; I will bring half a dozen with me that I twisted last week , which I hope will serve you all the time you are in the ...
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... served 20 up for the first dish in a most sumptuous manner . Upon our sitting down to it , he gave us a long account how he had hooked it , played with it , foiled it , and at length drew it out upon the bank , with several other ...
... served 20 up for the first dish in a most sumptuous manner . Upon our sitting down to it , he gave us a long account how he had hooked it , played with it , foiled it , and at length drew it out upon the bank , with several other ...
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... one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another , and by them pre- 20 served from one generation to another . Thus the vast 66 THE COVERLEY LINEAGE . jetting coat and small bonnet , 38 The Coverley Portraits No 109.
... one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another , and by them pre- 20 served from one generation to another . Thus the vast 66 THE COVERLEY LINEAGE . jetting coat and small bonnet , 38 The Coverley Portraits No 109.
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... if it were to be followed by bankruptcy . He served his country as a knight of the 30 shire to his dying day . He found it no easy matter to man . maintain an integrity in his words and actions , even THE COVERLEY PORTRAITS . 4I.
... if it were to be followed by bankruptcy . He served his country as a knight of the 30 shire to his dying day . He found it no easy matter to man . maintain an integrity in his words and actions , even THE COVERLEY PORTRAITS . 4I.
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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 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 49 - 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 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 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 48 - 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 152 - Abbey. For my own part, I could not but be pleased to see the Knight show such an honest passion for the glory of his country, and such a respectful gratitude to the memory of its princes. I must not omit that the benevolence of my good old friend, which flows out towards every one he converses with, made him very kind to our interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary man; for which reason he shook him by the hand at parting, telling him that he should be very glad to see him at his lodgings...
Página 25 - ... best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants ; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his...
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 70 - 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.