Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. WillsLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 227 strán (strany) |
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... several important Reasons , I must keep to my- felf , at least for fome Time : I mean , an Account of my Name , my Age , and my Lodgings . I must confefs , I would gratify my Reader in any Thing that is reasonable ; but as for these ...
... several important Reasons , I must keep to my- felf , at least for fome Time : I mean , an Account of my Name , my Age , and my Lodgings . I must confefs , I would gratify my Reader in any Thing that is reasonable ; but as for these ...
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... Friend Sir ROGER DE COVER- LEY to pafs away a Month with him in the Country , I laft Week accompanied him thither , and am fettled with him for fome Time at his Coun- try - house , where I intend to form several. Coverley Hall.
... Friend Sir ROGER DE COVER- LEY to pafs away a Month with him in the Country , I laft Week accompanied him thither , and am fettled with him for fome Time at his Coun- try - house , where I intend to form several. Coverley Hall.
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Joseph Addison William Henry Wills. try - house , where I intend to form several of my enfuing Speculations . Sir ROGER , who is very well acquainted with my Humour , lets me rife and go to Bed when I please , dine at his own Table or in ...
Joseph Addison William Henry Wills. try - house , where I intend to form several of my enfuing Speculations . Sir ROGER , who is very well acquainted with my Humour , lets me rife and go to Bed when I please , dine at his own Table or in ...
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Joseph Addison William Henry Wills. though he has been useless for several Years . I could not but obferve with a great deal of Pleasure the Joy that appeared in the Counte- nances of these ancient Domesticks upon my Friend's Arrival at ...
Joseph Addison William Henry Wills. though he has been useless for several Years . I could not but obferve with a great deal of Pleasure the Joy that appeared in the Counte- nances of these ancient Domesticks upon my Friend's Arrival at ...
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... several Parts to welcome his Arrival into the Country ; and all the Difference that I could take notice of between the late Servants who came to see him , and those who staid in the Family , was that these latter were looked upon as ...
... several Parts to welcome his Arrival into the Country ; and all the Difference that I could take notice of between the late Servants who came to see him , and those who staid in the Family , was that these latter were looked upon as ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 4 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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