Coverley Papers from the SpectatorMacmillan, 1897 - 197 Papers originally published in the Spectator written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, describing the life of the fictitious character Sir Roger de Coverley. |
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Strona xiv
... fashion , gives the Spectator many opportunities for criticizing the tra- ditions of morality and breeding surviving from the 66 1 Courthope , p . 174 , describes these words as a very mis- leading account of the matter , " since it ...
... fashion , gives the Spectator many opportunities for criticizing the tra- ditions of morality and breeding surviving from the 66 1 Courthope , p . 174 , describes these words as a very mis- leading account of the matter , " since it ...
Strona xvi
... fashion , the empty beliefs of a vacant mind ; if the foibles and eccentricities whether of town or country life can be pressed into the service of a warm - hearted , uncensorious philosophy . Allegory and apologue , fable and anecdote ...
... fashion , the empty beliefs of a vacant mind ; if the foibles and eccentricities whether of town or country life can be pressed into the service of a warm - hearted , uncensorious philosophy . Allegory and apologue , fable and anecdote ...
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... fashion at the time of his repulse , which , in his merry humours , he tells us , has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it . He 20 is now in his fifty - sixth year , cheerful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good house both ...
... fashion at the time of his repulse , which , in his merry humours , he tells us , has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it . He 20 is now in his fifty - sixth year , cheerful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good house both ...
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... fashion of one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another , and by them preserved from one generation to another . Thus the vast jetting coat and small bonnet , which was the habit in Henry the Seventh's time , is ...
... fashion of one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another , and by them preserved from one generation to another . Thus the vast jetting coat and small bonnet , which was the habit in Henry the Seventh's time , is ...
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... fashion of the polite world , but the town has dropped them and are nearer to the first state of nature , than to those refinements which formerly reigned in the court , and still prevail in the coun- try . One may now know a man that ...
... fashion of the polite world , but the town has dropped them and are nearer to the first state of nature , than to those refinements which formerly reigned in the court , and still prevail in the coun- try . One may now know a man that ...
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Strona 112 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Strona 116 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead. He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Strona 31 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Strona 6 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty ; keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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.
Strona 29 - ... 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.
Strona 14 - ... practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Strona 32 - Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the country, are very fatal to the ordinary people ; who are so used to be dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate, as of a man of learning ; and are very hardly brought to regard any truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several men of five hundred a year who do not believe it.
Strona 13 - My friend, says Sir Roger, found me out this gentleman; who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and because 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,...
Strona 30 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Strona 30 - 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.