The Sir Roger de Coverley PapersHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 193 Seiten |
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... character draw- ing and portraits of typical personages . It The " Spectator " is chief among the papers of its class which occupied the central position in literature in the eighteenth century , and it holds its high place 1 Published ...
... character draw- ing and portraits of typical personages . It The " Spectator " is chief among the papers of its class which occupied the central position in literature in the eighteenth century , and it holds its high place 1 Published ...
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... characters whom they impersonated . As soon as the Spectator himself had drawn his own portrait , he enlisted the interest and attention of a compact society of readers in London who loved gos- sip and social intercourse and were ...
... characters whom they impersonated . As soon as the Spectator himself had drawn his own portrait , he enlisted the interest and attention of a compact society of readers in London who loved gos- sip and social intercourse and were ...
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... character and giving him a consistent history , but as Macaulay remarks in his essay on The Life and Writings of Addison , " It is not easy to doubt that the portrait was meant to be in some features a like- ness of the painter ...
... character and giving him a consistent history , but as Macaulay remarks in his essay on The Life and Writings of Addison , " It is not easy to doubt that the portrait was meant to be in some features a like- ness of the painter ...
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... character of an odd unaccount- able fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after know- ledge carried me into all the countries of Europe in which there was anything new or strange to ...
... character of an odd unaccount- able fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after know- ledge carried me into all the countries of Europe in which there was anything new or strange to ...
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... characters of these papers with actual persons . Even if it could be known to a certainty that this or that English ... character after a popular dance of the day , and then gravely derive the dance from an ancestor of the hero . Steele ...
... characters of these papers with actual persons . Even if it could be known to a certainty that this or that English ... character after a popular dance of the day , and then gravely derive the dance from an ancestor of the hero . Steele ...
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Seite 179 - 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...
Seite 13 - 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. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next, as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that...
Seite 69 - 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 servant to them.
Seite 68 - 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 upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties...
Seite 27 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Seite 84 - The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced into its several products, how many hands must they pass through before they are fit for use ! Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty...
Seite 184 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead ! He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Seite 17 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side.
Seite 107 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress : within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them...
Seite 93 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.