The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the SpectatorD.C. Heath & Company, 1901 - 208 páginas |
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... 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 30 voice , a sociable temper : and , if possible , a man that understood a little of ...
... 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 30 voice , a sociable temper : and , if possible , a man that understood a little of ...
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... desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttle - cocks he had 5 with him in a little box to a lady that lived about a mile off , to whom it seems he had promised such a present for above this half year . Sir ...
... desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttle - cocks he had 5 with him in a little box to a lady that lived about a mile off , to whom it seems he had promised such a present for above this half year . Sir ...
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... desired me , with a very grave face , not to venture myself in it after 15 sunset , for that one of the footmen had been almost frightened out of his wits by a spirit that appeared to him in the shape of a black horse without an head ...
... desired me , with a very grave face , not to venture myself in it after 15 sunset , for that one of the footmen had been almost frightened out of his wits by a spirit that appeared to him in the shape of a black horse without an head ...
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... , the knight returned it by the servant with a great many expressions of civil- 30 ity ; but desired him to tell his master , that the dog he had sent was indeed a most excellent bass , but SIR ROGER AS A HUNTER . 69.
... , the knight returned it by the servant with a great many expressions of civil- 30 ity ; but desired him to tell his master , that the dog he had sent was indeed a most excellent bass , but SIR ROGER AS A HUNTER . 69.
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... desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise . I at first kept my usual silence : but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not still more like himself than a Saracen ...
... desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise . I at first kept my usual silence : but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not still more like himself than a Saracen ...
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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 47 - ... 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 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 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 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.
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.