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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Strana 27
... Respect and Love go together ; and a certain Chearfulness in Performance of their Duty is the particular Distinction of the lower Part of this Family . When a Servant is called before his Master , he does not come with an Ex- pectation ...
... Respect and Love go together ; and a certain Chearfulness in Performance of their Duty is the particular Distinction of the lower Part of this Family . When a Servant is called before his Master , he does not come with an Ex- pectation ...
Strana 106
... Respect which is fhewn to the good old Knight . He would needs carry Will Wimble and myself with him to the County Affizes : As we were upon the Road Will Wimble joined a couple of plain Men who rid be- fore us , and converfed with them ...
... Respect which is fhewn to the good old Knight . He would needs carry Will Wimble and myself with him to the County Affizes : As we were upon the Road Will Wimble joined a couple of plain Men who rid be- fore us , and converfed with them ...
Strana 183
... respect Child's was fuperfeded by the Chapter in Paternofter Row . THE ST . JAMES'S was the Spectator's head - quarters . It stood at the end of Pall Mall - of which it commanded a perspective view - near to , if not upon the fite of ...
... respect Child's was fuperfeded by the Chapter in Paternofter Row . THE ST . JAMES'S was the Spectator's head - quarters . It stood at the end of Pall Mall - of which it commanded a perspective view - near to , if not upon the fite of ...
Strana 196
... respecting any of the rest of the Coverley cha- racters . Although a mere outline , -hinted rather than deline- ated amidst the picturefque group of last century figures - fhe is fo fuggeftively shadowed forth that the reader himself ...
... respecting any of the rest of the Coverley cha- racters . Although a mere outline , -hinted rather than deline- ated amidst the picturefque group of last century figures - fhe is fo fuggeftively shadowed forth that the reader himself ...
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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