Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. WillsLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 227 стор. |
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... gave Sir ROGER'S Love to him , or the like . A Man who preferves a Refpect , founded on his Benevolence to his Dependents , lives rather like a Prince than a Master in his Family ; his Or- ders are received as Favours , rather than ...
... gave Sir ROGER'S Love to him , or the like . A Man who preferves a Refpect , founded on his Benevolence to his Dependents , lives rather like a Prince than a Master in his Family ; his Or- ders are received as Favours , rather than ...
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... gave us a long Account how he had hooked it , played with it , foiled it , and at length drew it out upon the Bank , with feveral other Particulars that lafted all the firft Course . A Dish of Wild- fowl that came afterwards furnished ...
... gave us a long Account how he had hooked it , played with it , foiled it , and at length drew it out upon the Bank , with feveral other Particulars that lafted all the firft Course . A Dish of Wild- fowl that came afterwards furnished ...
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... gave him up at length to his own Inven- tions . But certainly , however improper he might have been for Studies of a higher Nature , he was perfectly well turned for the Occupations of Trade and Commerce . FRED TRY CERT CHAP . V. THE ...
... gave him up at length to his own Inven- tions . But certainly , however improper he might have been for Studies of a higher Nature , he was perfectly well turned for the Occupations of Trade and Commerce . FRED TRY CERT CHAP . V. THE ...
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... at his coming to his Ef- tate 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 Haffock and a Common - prayer Book : and at the 52 The Coverley Sabbath .
... at his coming to his Ef- tate 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 Haffock and a Common - prayer Book : and at the 52 The Coverley Sabbath .
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... gave me the Picture of that chearful Mind of his , before it received that Stroke which has ever fince affected his Words and Ac- tions . But he went on as follows . ' I came to my Estate in my Twenty fecond ' Year , and refolved to ...
... gave me the Picture of that chearful Mind of his , before it received that Stroke which has ever fince affected his Words and Ac- tions . But he went on as follows . ' I came to my Estate in my Twenty fecond ' Year , and refolved to ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 4 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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