The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from "The Spectator"Longmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 174 strán (strany) |
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Strana xxxiv
... beauty . " Before the death of his first wife he had been appointed gentleman - waiter to Prince George ( husband of Queen Anne ) at £ 100 a year , and shortly after her death he was made Gazetteer , with a salary of £ 300 . He says of ...
... beauty . " Before the death of his first wife he had been appointed gentleman - waiter to Prince George ( husband of Queen Anne ) at £ 100 a year , and shortly after her death he was made Gazetteer , with a salary of £ 300 . He says of ...
Strana 8
... beauty ; but this is looked upon by his friends rather as matter of raillery than truth . He is now in his fifty - sixth year , cheerful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good house in both town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but ...
... beauty ; but this is looked upon by his friends rather as matter of raillery than truth . He is now in his fifty - sixth year , cheerful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good house in both town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but ...
Strana 13
... beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up : " He has good blood in his veins ; Tom Mirabell , the rogue , cheated me in that affair ; that ...
... beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up : " He has good blood in his veins ; Tom Mirabell , the rogue , cheated me in that affair ; that ...
Strana 17
... beauty will not pass upon men of honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore3 says , with as much good sense as virtue , " It is a mighty dishonor and shame to employ excellent faculties and abundance of wit , to humor and ...
... beauty will not pass upon men of honest minds and true taste . Sir Richard Blackmore3 says , with as much good sense as virtue , " It is a mighty dishonor and shame to employ excellent faculties and abundance of wit , to humor and ...
Strana 28
... beauty , and is still a very lovely woman . She has been a widow for two or three years , and being unfortunate in her first marriage , has taken a resolution never to venture upon a second . She has no children to take care of , and ...
... beauty , and is still a very lovely woman . She has been a widow for two or three years , and being unfortunate in her first marriage , has taken a resolution never to venture upon a second . She has no children to take care of , and ...
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Strana xxxi - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Strana 55 - 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...
Strana 7 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Strana 4 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the, game.
Strana 162 - Stomach, not being able to touch a Sirloin, which was served up according to Custom ; and you know he used to take great Delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good Heart to the last. Indeed, we were once in great Hope of his Recovery, upon a kind Message that was sent him from the Widow Lady whom he had made love to the Forty last Years of his Life; but this only proved a Light'ning before Death.
Strana 79 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Strana 147 - The glorious names of Henry the Fifth and Queen Elizabeth gave the knight great opportunities of shining, and of doing justice to Sir Richard Baker, who...
Strana 32 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country seat.
Strana 35 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in...
Strana 34 - 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 a 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.