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 34
... last time I faw you upon ' the Bowling - Green , that your Whip wanted a Lafh to it ; I will bring half a dozen with me ' that I twisted last Week , which I hope will ferve you all the Time you are in the Country . I have C ' not been ...
... last time I faw you upon ' the Bowling - Green , that your Whip wanted a Lafh to it ; I will bring half a dozen with me ' that I twisted last Week , which I hope will ferve you all the Time you are in the Country . I have C ' not been ...
Strana 47
... 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 and down on every Side , and half covered with Ivy ...
... 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 and down on every Side , and half covered with Ivy ...
Strana 60
... 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- ' tivated Calf as I was ...
... 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- ' tivated Calf as I was ...
Strana 63
... last Confusion and Silence , this malicious Aid of hers turning to her fays , I ' am very glad to observe Sir ROGER pauses upon ' this Subject , and seems refolved to deliver all his ' Sentiments upon the Matter when he pleases to ...
... last Confusion and Silence , this malicious Aid of hers turning to her fays , I ' am very glad to observe Sir ROGER pauses upon ' this Subject , and seems refolved to deliver all his ' Sentiments upon the Matter when he pleases to ...
Strana 96
... last , in the Front or in the Rear , as Chance directs . I have known my Friend Sir ROGER's Dinner almost cold before the Company could adjust the Ceremonial , and be prevailed upon to fit down ; and have heartily pitied my old Friend ...
... last , in the Front or in the Rear , as Chance directs . I have known my Friend Sir ROGER's Dinner almost cold before the Company could adjust the Ceremonial , and be prevailed upon to fit down ; and have heartily pitied my old Friend ...
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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