The Sir Roger de Coverley PapersAmerican Book Company, 1904 - 258 стор. |
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... nature of the world in a somewhat superior and distant fashion . His temper , less buoyant than Steele's , was more thoughtful and reflective ; his humour , more delicate and subtle . And if his observation was not so broad as that of ...
... nature of the world in a somewhat superior and distant fashion . His temper , less buoyant than Steele's , was more thoughtful and reflective ; his humour , more delicate and subtle . And if his observation was not so broad as that of ...
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... nature that conduce very much to the right understanding 5 of an author . To gratify this curiosity , which is so natural to a reader , I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall give ...
... nature that conduce very much to the right understanding 5 of an author . To gratify this curiosity , which is so natural to a reader , I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall give ...
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... nature and reason , a selfish man in the most shining circumstance and equi- page , appears in the same condition with the fellow above- 25 mentioned , but more contemptible in proportion to what more he robs the public of and enjoys ...
... nature and reason , a selfish man in the most shining circumstance and equi- page , appears in the same condition with the fellow above- 25 mentioned , but more contemptible in proportion to what more he robs the public of and enjoys ...
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... Nature and reason direct one thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of the two latter , is going into a road that is both endless 20 and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we ...
... Nature and reason direct one thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of the two latter , is going into a road that is both endless 20 and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we ...
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... nature itself should prompt us to think so . Respect to all kind of superiors is founded , methinks , upon in- stinct ; and yet what is so ridiculous as age ? 1 I make to this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice 2 more than ...
... nature itself should prompt us to think so . Respect to all kind of superiors is founded , methinks , upon in- stinct ; and yet what is so ridiculous as age ? 1 I make to this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice 2 more than ...
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Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. Wills Joseph Addison Повний перегляд - 1850 |
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Сторінка 75 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Сторінка 204 - 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 103 - The squire has made all his tenants atheists and tithe-stealers ; while the parson instructs them every Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Сторінка 53 - His familiarity with the customs, manners, actions, and writings of the ancients makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world.
Сторінка 51 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous countrydance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir ROGER. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Сторінка 210 - 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...
Сторінка 47 - There is no place of general resort, wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's 1 and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences.
Сторінка 78 - 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 asked...
Сторінка 52 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Сторінка 52 - 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.