The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the SpectatorScott, Foresman, 1919 - 249 Seiten |
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... Nature and simple out - door life . No sooner , however , did they establish a country seat out of Lon- don than they began to make it as artificial as them- selves . They laid out the paths in geometrical figures ; they dug out ...
... Nature and simple out - door life . No sooner , however , did they establish a country seat out of Lon- don than they began to make it as artificial as them- selves . They laid out the paths in geometrical figures ; they dug out ...
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... nature of plants . ' Besides the Spectator - to whom he eventually be- queathed his books - he indulged a platonic admiration for Leonora , a widow , formerly a celebrated woman , and still a very lovely woman , who turned all the ...
... nature of plants . ' Besides the Spectator - to whom he eventually be- queathed his books - he indulged a platonic admiration for Leonora , a widow , formerly a celebrated woman , and still a very lovely woman , who turned all the ...
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... nature and kindness into political life , could not escape the spirit of the times . Their long and earnest friend- ship ended in political differences and personal bitterness . 21. The War . During much of this time , 34 INTRODUCTION.
... nature and kindness into political life , could not escape the spirit of the times . Their long and earnest friend- ship ended in political differences and personal bitterness . 21. The War . During much of this time , 34 INTRODUCTION.
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... nature . But for words which the heart finds when the head is seeking ; for phrases glowing with the white - heat of a generous emotion ; for sentences which throb and tingle with manly pity or cour- ageous indignation , we must turn to ...
... nature . But for words which the heart finds when the head is seeking ; for phrases glowing with the white - heat of a generous emotion ; for sentences which throb and tingle with manly pity or cour- ageous indignation , we must turn to ...
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... 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 writ- ings , and shall give ...
... 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 writ- ings , and shall give ...
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Seite 42 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 42 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice ; Forever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Seite 80 - I am the more at ease in Sir ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the 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 valet...
Seite 108 - Foils that rather set off than blemish his good Qualities. 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...
Seite 56 - ... town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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.
Seite 55 - 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.
Seite 79 - Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen of the country come to see him, he only shows me at a distance.
Seite 107 - He has likewise given a handsome pulpit cloth and railed in the communion table at his own expense. He has often told me that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular, and that in order to make them kneel and join in the responses he gave every one of them a hassock and a commonprayer book, and at the same time employed an itinerant singing master, who goes about the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms...
Seite 82 - found me out this gentleman, who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
Seite 82 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.