Sir Roger de CoverleyTicknor, 1852 - 233 Seiten |
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... followed by his Favour ever since , had made him Master of that pretty Seat which we saw at a distance as we came to this House . I remembered indeed Sir ROGER said there lived a very worthy Gentleman , to whom he was highly obliged ...
... followed by his Favour ever since , had made him Master of that pretty Seat which we saw at a distance as we came to this House . I remembered indeed Sir ROGER said there lived a very worthy Gentleman , to whom he was highly obliged ...
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... followed by one particular Set of People in ' another , and by them preserved from one Generation ' to another . Thus the vast jetting Coat and small ' Bonnet , which was the Habit in Harry the Seventh's Time , is kept on in the Yeomen ...
... followed by one particular Set of People in ' another , and by them preserved from one Generation ' to another . Thus the vast jetting Coat and small ' Bonnet , which was the Habit in Harry the Seventh's Time , is kept on in the Yeomen ...
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... , and as generous as a Gentleman . He would have thought ' himself as much undone by breaking his Word , as if 6 ' it were to be followed by Bankruptcy . He served 6 " ' his Country as Knight of this Shire 40 THE COVERLEY LINEAGE .
... , and as generous as a Gentleman . He would have thought ' himself as much undone by breaking his Word , as if 6 ' it were to be followed by Bankruptcy . He served 6 " ' his Country as Knight of this Shire 40 THE COVERLEY LINEAGE .
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... followed the Servant , that this his Ancestor was a brave Man , and narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars ; For , ' said he , he was sent out of ' the Field upon a private Message , the Day before the ' Battle of Worcester ...
... followed the Servant , that this his Ancestor was a brave Man , and narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars ; For , ' said he , he was sent out of ' the Field upon a private Message , the Day before the ' Battle of Worcester ...
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... followed a profound Silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my Friend falling so naturally into a Discourse , which I had ever before taken notice he industriously avoided . After a very long Pause he entered upon an Account of ...
... followed a profound Silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my Friend falling so naturally into a Discourse , which I had ever before taken notice he industriously avoided . After a very long Pause he entered upon an Account of ...
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50 cents Abbey Account Addison appears Battle of Steenkirk Behaviour better Boevey called CHAP Chaplain CHAPTER Character Church Club Coffee-house Company Conversation Country Court COVERLEY HALL Daily Courant Discourse Duke of Monmouth Estate Eudoxus Eustace Budgell Family Father followed Fortune Friend Sir ROGER Gentleman give Good-breeding Gray's Inn Hand Head hear heard honest HONEYCOMB Honour House Humour Lady Laertes Lane Leontine lived look Love manner Master Mind Mohocks Moll White Name Nature Neighbourhood never observe Occasion old Friend old Knight ordinary paper particular party passed Person perverse Widow Place Play pleased Pleasure POEMS Price 75 cents Prince publick Pyrrhus ROGER DE COVERLEY says Sir ROGER Servants shew Sir ANDREW FREEPORT Sir Richard Baker speak Spectator Squire Steele Tatler tell thee thing thou thought tion took Tory Town VIRG walking Westminster Abbey Whig whispered White Witch whole Wimble Woman Worcestershire World young
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Seite 161 - 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 195 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 163 - 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...
Seite 46 - I am always very well pleased with a country 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...
Seite 18 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
Seite 96 - ... an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.
Seite 16 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Seite 73 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
Seite 137 - Winter. It is the most dead, uncomfortable Time of the Year, when the poor People would suffer very much from their Poverty and Cold, if they had not good Cheer, warm Fires, and Christmas Gambols to support them. I love to rejoyce their poor Hearts at this Season, and to see the whole Village merry in my great Hall.
Seite 55 - As soon as I thought my retinue suitable to the character of my fortune and youth, I set out from hence to make my addresses. The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your wishes, and yet command respect. To make her mistress of this art, she has a greater share of knowledge, wit, and good sense than is usual even among men of merit.