Coverley Papers from the SpectatorMacmillan, 1897 - 197 стор. Papers originally published in the Spectator written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, describing the life of the fictitious character Sir Roger de Coverley. |
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Сторінка xvii
... wish that that share had been less . For in none of the series is Addison's play of fancy more delicate , in none his grace and pathos more graceful and pathetic . Party Patches and Ladies ' Head - dresses may in themselves seem trifles ...
... wish that that share had been less . For in none of the series is Addison's play of fancy more delicate , in none his grace and pathos more graceful and pathetic . Party Patches and Ladies ' Head - dresses may in themselves seem trifles ...
Сторінка xix
... wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge that as easily may he ...
... wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge that as easily may he ...
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... in this world , as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . These are my ordinary companions . R. · No. 106. ] III . SIR ROGER AT HOME . 10 THE SPECTATOR .
... in this world , as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . These are my ordinary companions . R. · No. 106. ] III . SIR ROGER AT HOME . 10 THE SPECTATOR .
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... wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example , and , instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own , would endea- vour after a handsome elocution , and all those other talents that are proper ...
... wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example , and , instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own , would endea- vour after a handsome elocution , and all those other talents that are proper ...
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... 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 . Then she is beautiful beyond the race of women . If you will not ...
... 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 . Then she is beautiful beyond the race of women . If you will not ...
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Сторінка 112 - 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...
Сторінка 116 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead. He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Сторінка 31 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Сторінка 6 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty ; keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Сторінка 29 - ... 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.
Сторінка 14 - ... 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 the mouth of a graceful actor.
Сторінка 32 - Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the country, are very fatal to the ordinary people ; who are so used to be dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate, as of a man of learning ; and are very hardly brought to regard any truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several men of five hundred a year who do not believe it.
Сторінка 13 - My friend, says Sir 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 not know I have taken notice of it, has never, in all that time,...
Сторінка 30 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Сторінка 30 - 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.