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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... Name , my Age , and my Lodgings . I must confefs , I would gratify my Reader in any Thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three Particu- lars , though I am fenfible they might tend very much to the Embellishment of my Paper , I ...
... Name , my Age , and my Lodgings . I must confefs , I would gratify my Reader in any Thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three Particu- lars , though I am fenfible they might tend very much to the Embellishment of my Paper , I ...
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... Name Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY . His Great Grandfather was Inventor of that famous Country- Dance 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 ...
... Name Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY . His Great Grandfather was Inventor of that famous Country- Dance 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 ...
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... Names , and talks all the Way up Stairs to a Vifit . I must not omit , that Sir ROGER is a Juftice of the Quorum ; that he fills the Chair at a Quarter - Seffion with great Abilities , and three Months ago gained univerfal Applause by ...
... Names , and talks all the Way up Stairs to a Vifit . I must not omit , that Sir ROGER is a Juftice of the Quorum ; that he fills the Chair at a Quarter - Seffion with great Abilities , and three Months ago gained univerfal Applause by ...
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... Gift from ' that honest Man you see there , a Citizen of our ' Name , but nothing at all akin to us . I know ' SIR ANDREW FREEPORT has faid behind my ' Back , that this Man was defcended from one The Coverley Lineage . 43.
... Gift from ' that honest Man you see there , a Citizen of our ' Name , but nothing at all akin to us . I know ' SIR ANDREW FREEPORT has faid behind my ' Back , that this Man was defcended from one The Coverley Lineage . 43.
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... Name on the Bark of several of these Trees ; fo unhappy is the Condition of Men in C C ( Love , to attempt the removing of their Paffions by the Methods which ferve only to imprint it deeper . She has certainly the finest Hand of any ...
... Name on the Bark of several of these Trees ; fo unhappy is the Condition of Men in C C ( Love , to attempt the removing of their Paffions by the Methods which ferve only to imprint it deeper . She has certainly the finest Hand of any ...
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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