Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the "Spectator"Longmans, Green, 1904 - 172 pages |
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... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise ...
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise ...
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... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writ- ings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writ- ings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
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... conversation . The mili- tary part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost ...
... conversation . The mili- tary part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost ...
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... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as that sort of man , who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude his ...
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as that sort of man , who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude his ...
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... conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger , and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent . I have observed in several of my papers , that my friend Sir ...
... conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger , and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent . I have observed in several of my papers , that my friend Sir ...
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Page 32 - 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.
Page 46 - 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-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 8 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 16 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered- the inquiries after his own affairs, with several kind questions relating to themselves. This humanity and...
Page 70 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel...
Page 30 - TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds immeasurably spread Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Page 23 - What good to his country or himself might not a trader or merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications ? Will. Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Page 22 - Will Wimble is younger Brother to a Baronet, and descended of the ancient Family of the Wimbles. He is now between Forty and Fifty; but being bred to no Business and born to no Estate, he generally lives with his elder Brother as Superintendant of his Game.
Page 16 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country seat.
Page 30 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.