Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the SpectatorMacmillan, 1922 - Počet stran: 166 |
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Strana xxi
... debt of gratitude to these painstaking strugglers . They stopped short of the beauty which broadens , the love of nature which inspires ; but by their sharp criticisms , and the practice of their own theories , they made INTRODUCTION XX.
... debt of gratitude to these painstaking strugglers . They stopped short of the beauty which broadens , the love of nature which inspires ; but by their sharp criticisms , and the practice of their own theories , they made INTRODUCTION XX.
Strana xxxvi
... short time left college to join the army . He enlisted as private , but was afterward made captain ; and tells us that he " first became an author while Ensign of the Guards . " His first prose work , The Christian Hero , which showed ...
... short time left college to join the army . He enlisted as private , but was afterward made captain ; and tells us that he " first became an author while Ensign of the Guards . " His first prose work , The Christian Hero , which showed ...
Strana xxxvii
... short time . Addison's fathe a prominent dean in good circumstances , had a comfortable and somewhat luxurious home , and the boy knew nothing of privation and struggle with pov- erty . In their college days Thackeray marks the dif ...
... short time . Addison's fathe a prominent dean in good circumstances , had a comfortable and somewhat luxurious home , and the boy knew nothing of privation and struggle with pov- erty . In their college days Thackeray marks the dif ...
Strana 4
... short , wherever I see a cluster of people , 20 I always mix with them , though I never open my lips but in my own club . Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made ...
... short , wherever I see a cluster of people , 20 I always mix with them , though I never open my lips but in my own club . Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made ...
Strana 5
... short , I have acted in all the parts 10 of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not altogether ...
... short , I have acted in all the parts 10 of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not altogether ...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Úplné zobrazení - 1906 |
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Strana 64 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Strana 140 - 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?
Strana 45 - 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 43 - ... upon indifferent subjects, 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 150 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies and the gifts of charity which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old housedog that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Strana 141 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Strana 32 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning and Dr. South in the afternoon.
Strana 9 - ... the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company : when he comes into a house, he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit. I must not omit, that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter-session with great abilities, and three months ago gained universal applause by explaining a passage in the game act.
Strana 7 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him.
Strana 29 - Humour, and none so much as the Person whom he diverts himself with: On the Contrary, if he coughs or betrays any Infirmity of old Age, it is easy for a Standerby to observe a secret Concern in the Looks of all his Servants.