Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. WillsLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 227 Seiten |
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... Some of them could not refrain from Tears at the Sight of their old Mafter ; every one of them prefs'd forward to do something for him , and seemed dif- couraged if they were not employed . At the fame time the good old Knight , with a ...
... Some of them could not refrain from Tears at the Sight of their old Mafter ; every one of them prefs'd forward to do something for him , and seemed dif- couraged if they were not employed . At the fame time the good old Knight , with a ...
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... to startle might easily have construed into a black Horse without an Head : And I dare fay the poor Footman loft his Wits upon some such trivial Occafion . MY Friend Sir ROGER has often told me with a 48 The Coverley Ghoft .
... to startle might easily have construed into a black Horse without an Head : And I dare fay the poor Footman loft his Wits upon some such trivial Occafion . MY Friend Sir ROGER has often told me with a 48 The Coverley Ghoft .
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... some of my Friend's Ex- ploits : He has in his youthful Days taken forty Coveys of Partridges in a Seafon ; and tired many a Salmon with a Line consisting but of a single Hair . The conftant Thanks and good Wishes of the Neighbourhood ...
... some of my Friend's Ex- ploits : He has in his youthful Days taken forty Coveys of Partridges in a Seafon ; and tired many a Salmon with a Line consisting but of a single Hair . The conftant Thanks and good Wishes of the Neighbourhood ...
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... Some Creatures caft their Eggs as Chance directs them , and think of them no farther , as Infects and several Kinds of Fish ; others of a nicer Frame , find out proper Beds to deposit them in , and there leave them ; as the Serpent ...
... Some Creatures caft their Eggs as Chance directs them , and think of them no farther , as Infects and several Kinds of Fish ; others of a nicer Frame , find out proper Beds to deposit them in , and there leave them ; as the Serpent ...
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... some time fince , unknown to Sir ROGER , put him up in a Sign - poft before the Door ; fo that the Knight's Head had hung out upon the Road about a Week before he himself knew any thing of the Matter . As foon as Sir ROGER was ...
... some time fince , unknown to Sir ROGER , put him up in a Sign - poft before the Door ; fo that the Knight's Head had hung out upon the Road about a Week before he himself knew any thing of the Matter . As foon as Sir ROGER was ...
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Seite 52 - ... hear their duties 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.
Seite 14 - For, says he, that great Man who has a Mind to help me, has as many to break through to come at me, as I have to come at him. Therefore he will conclude, that the Man who would make a Figure, especially in a military Way, must get over all false Modesty, and assist his Patron against the Importunity of other Pretenders, by a proper Assurance in his own Vindication. He says it is a civil Cowardice to...
Seite 4 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 53 - 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.
Seite 55 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Seite 4 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 23 - 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 not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked...
Seite 157 - I must not omit that the benevolence of my good old friend, which flows out towards every one he converses with, made him very kind to our interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary man; for which reason he shook him by the hand at parting, telling him that he should be very glad to see him at his lodgings in Norfolk Buildings, and talk over these matters with him more at leisure.
Seite 15 - ... what you ought to expect, as it is a military fear to be slow in attacking when it is your duty. With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others.
Seite 53 - 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