Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. WillsLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - Počet stran: 227 |
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... she had brought forth a Judge : Whether this might proceed from a Law - Suit which was then depend- ing in the Family , or my Father's being a Justice of the Peace , I cannot determine ; for I am not fo vain as to think it prefaged any ...
... she had brought forth a Judge : Whether this might proceed from a Law - Suit which was then depend- ing in the Family , or my Father's being a Justice of the Peace , I cannot determine ; for I am not fo vain as to think it prefaged any ...
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... she ' ftood in a large Drum , whereas the Ladies now ' walk as if they were in a Go - Cart . For all this Lady was bred at Court , fhe became an excellent Country - Wife , fhe brought ten Children , and ' when I fhew you the Library ...
... she ' ftood in a large Drum , whereas the Ladies now ' walk as if they were in a Go - Cart . For all this Lady was bred at Court , fhe became an excellent Country - Wife , fhe brought ten Children , and ' when I fhew you the Library ...
Strana 47
... she let it fall . I was taking a Walk in this Place last Night between the Hours of Nine and Ten , and could not but fancy it one of the most proper Scenes in the World for a Ghost to appear in . The Ruins of the Abbey are scattered up ...
... she let it fall . I was taking a Walk in this Place last Night between the Hours of Nine and Ten , and could not but fancy it one of the most proper Scenes in the World for a Ghost to appear in . The Ruins of the Abbey are scattered up ...
Strana 58
... She has cer- tainly the fineft Hand of any Woman in the World . You are to know this was the Place ' wherein I used to mufe upon her ; and by that ' Custom I can never come into it , but the fame ' tender Sentiments revive in my Mind ...
... She has cer- tainly the fineft Hand of any Woman in the World . You are to know this was the Place ' wherein I used to mufe upon her ; and by that ' Custom I can never come into it , but the fame ' tender Sentiments revive in my Mind ...
Strana 60
... she encountered , that at last , with a Murrain to her , fhe caft her bewitching Eye upon me . I no fooner met it , but I bowed like ' a great surprised Booby ; and knowing her Caufe to be the firft which came on , I cried , like a cap ...
... she encountered , that at last , with a Murrain to her , fhe caft her bewitching Eye upon me . I no fooner met it , but I bowed like ' a great surprised Booby ; and knowing her Caufe to be the firft which came on , I cried , like a cap ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 4 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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