Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the SpectatorMaynard Merrill, 1906 - 269 Seiten |
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... the age of twenty - two Addison wrote his first English verses , addressed to Dryden , then the foremost writer in England . While they are strong , they express no more than the natural compliment of a young poet to one 6 INTRODUCTION.
... the age of twenty - two Addison wrote his first English verses , addressed to Dryden , then the foremost writer in England . While they are strong , they express no more than the natural compliment of a young poet to one 6 INTRODUCTION.
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... young poet to one whom he reverences as a master of his art . Addison's active career did not , however , really begin until he was twenty - eight years of age . Had he been left to himself , he would probably have been tempted by the ...
... young poet to one whom he reverences as a master of his art . Addison's active career did not , however , really begin until he was twenty - eight years of age . Had he been left to himself , he would probably have been tempted by the ...
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... young lady in the boxes . He has a relish for beauty and goodness wherever he meets it . He admired Shakespeare affectionately , and more than any man of his time ; and according to his generous , expansive nature called upon all his ...
... young lady in the boxes . He has a relish for beauty and goodness wherever he meets it . He admired Shakespeare affectionately , and more than any man of his time ; and according to his generous , expansive nature called upon all his ...
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... young women 20 profess to love him , and the young men are glad of his company . When he comes into a house , he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a ...
... young women 20 profess to love him , and the young men are glad of his company . When he comes into a house , he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a ...
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... young gentlemen , who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in , made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came 20 where they sat . The good man bustled through the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the seats ...
... young gentlemen , who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in , made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came 20 where they sat . The good man bustled through the crowd accordingly ; but when he came to the seats ...
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Seite 54 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves.
Seite 80 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces amen...
Seite 231 - 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-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Seite 107 - Koger ; and shall prescribe .the moderate use of this exercise to all my country friends, as the best kind of physic for mending a bad constitution, and preserving a good one.
Seite 74 - ... birds which seldom make their appearance till the dusk of the evening. The place was formerly a churchyard, and has still several marks in it of graves and buryingplaces. There is such an echo among the old ruins and vaults, that if you stamp but a little louder than ordinary, you hear the sound repeated. At the same time the walk of elms, with the croaking of the ravens which from time to time are heard from the tops of them, looks exceeding solemn and venerable.
Seite 56 - Roger, 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. He has now been with me thirty years, and though he does...
Seite 35 - 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, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches, our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Seite 33 - ROGER, he has quitted a Way of Life in which no Man can rise suitably to his Merit, who is not something of a Courtier as well as a Soldier. I have heard him often lament; that in a Profession where Merit is placed in so conspicuous a View, Impudence should get the Better of Modesty. When he...
Seite 81 - 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 233 - As we most of us are grown gray-headed in our dear master's service, he has left us pensions and legacies, which we may live very comfortably upon the remaining part of our days. He has bequeathed a great deal more in charity, which is not yet come to my knowledge: and it is peremptorily said in the parish...