Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the SpectatorMaynard Merrill, 1906 - 269 էջ |
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... by Steele . Four of the club , the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , and the mer- chant , were uninteresting figures , fit only for a background . But the other two , an old country baronet and 14 CRITICAL OPINIONS.
... by Steele . Four of the club , the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , and the mer- chant , were uninteresting figures , fit only for a background . But the other two , an old country baronet and 14 CRITICAL OPINIONS.
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... figure were he not a rich man ) 15 he calls the sea the British Common . He is ac- quainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) 15 he calls the sea the British Common . He is ac- quainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be ...
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... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the 10 importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assur- ance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the 10 importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assur- ance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
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... lions , monkeys , mandarins , trees , shells , and a thousand other odd figures in china ware . In the midst of the room was a small japan table , with a quire of gilt paper upon it , and on 48 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS [ No. 5.
... lions , monkeys , mandarins , trees , shells , and a thousand other odd figures in china ware . In the midst of the room was a small japan table , with a quire of gilt paper upon it , and on 48 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS [ No. 5.
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... 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 dis- 5 courses he pronounced , that I think I never No. 6 ] SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS 57.
... 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 dis- 5 courses he pronounced , that I think I never No. 6 ] SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS 57.
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from "The Spectator" Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1925 |
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 141 - Roger, upon seeing me laugh, desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise. I at first kept my usual silence; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not still more like himself than' a Saracen, I composed my countenance in the best manner I could, and replied, that ' much might be said on both sides.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 33 - When he has talked to this Purpose I never heard him make a sour Expression, but frankly confess that he left the World, because he was not fit for it. A strict Honesty and an even Regular...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 57 - 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 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 the mouth of a graceful actor.
Էջ 83 - I can never come into it, but the same tender sentiments revive in my mind as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades. I have been fool enough to carve her name on the bark of several of these trees ; so unhappy is the condition of men in love to attempt the removing of their passion by the methods which serve only to imprint it deeper. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world.
Էջ 80 - 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.
Էջ 79 - 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 upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being.