The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the SpectatorScott, Foresman and Company, 1903 - 249 Seiten |
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... learning . It is worth one's while to go over in detail the library which one of these ladies * 1 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 ...
... learning . It is worth one's while to go over in detail the library which one of these ladies * 1 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 ...
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... learning were very slight . He had had perhaps a year or so at the University , but even there he had devoted him- self more to roystering than to learning , and when he had returned to his estates he was usually quite willing to settle ...
... learning were very slight . He had had perhaps a year or so at the University , but even there he had devoted him- self more to roystering than to learning , and when he had returned to his estates he was usually quite willing to settle ...
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... learning , to check the rent - book and the miller's score , to shoe the horses , to say grace at meals , and to withdraw as soon as the cheese and tarts made their appearance on the table . " always keep a chaplain , ' wrote one bitter ...
... learning , to check the rent - book and the miller's score , to shoe the horses , to say grace at meals , and to withdraw as soon as the cheese and tarts made their appearance on the table . " always keep a chaplain , ' wrote one bitter ...
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... men of affairs as well as men of letters , was writing political pamphlets as well as literary essays . With all his pleasure in learning , he lived as much among people as among books , and , though in his light INTRODUCTION 39.
... men of affairs as well as men of letters , was writing political pamphlets as well as literary essays . With all his pleasure in learning , he lived as much among people as among books , and , though in his light INTRODUCTION 39.
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... learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was anything new or strange to be seen : nay , to such a degree was my curiosity raised , that having ...
... learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was anything new or strange to be seen : nay , to such a degree was my curiosity raised , that having ...
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acquainted Addison agreeable appear beauty behavior called Captain chaplain Church club coffee-house conversation court creature discourse dress England English Eudoxus Eustace Budgell fashion father fortune fox-hunting Freeport friend Sir Roger gallery gentleman give Glaphyra hand hear heard heart HERBERT VAUGHAN honest honor hounds humor hunting Inns of Court Introduction Joseph Addison Juvenal kind Kit-Cat Club lady Laertes Leontine lived London look maid manner master merchant mind Mohocks Moll White Naevia nature neighbors never numbers observed old knight ordinary paper particular passion person pleased pleasure political Pyrrhus reader reason Roger de Coverley says Sir Roger Section sense servants Sir Andrew Freeport speak Spectator spirit squire Steele Steele's talk Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion told Tories town turn Virgil walk Whig whole widow WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Wimble woman young
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Seite 41 - 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 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 57 - 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.
Seite 107 - 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 221 - And straight conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake, Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness ; but shall see her gain'd By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld By parents, or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
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 - 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 - 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...
Seite 82 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and, upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow, for it was Saturday night, told us the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon. He then...
Seite 60 - He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...