The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From "The Spectator"Ginn, 1899 - 249 |
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... pleased , provided I con- tinued to combat with criminals in a body , and to assault the vice without hurting the person . This debate , which was held for the good of mankind , 15 put me in mind of that which the Roman triumvirate were ...
... pleased , provided I con- tinued to combat with criminals in a body , and to assault the vice without hurting the person . This debate , which was held for the good of mankind , 15 put me in mind of that which the Roman triumvirate were ...
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... pleased with such a mixed kind of furniture as seemed very suitable both to the lady and the scholar , and did not know , at first , whether I should fancy myself 15 in a grotto or in a library . Upon my looking into the books , I found ...
... pleased with such a mixed kind of furniture as seemed very suitable both to the lady and the scholar , and did not know , at first , whether I should fancy myself 15 in a grotto or in a library . Upon my looking into the books , I found ...
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... pleased , and be barren of bounty to those who please them . 5 One might , on this occasion , recount the sense that great persons in all ages have had of the merit of their depend- ants , and the heroic services which men have done ...
... pleased , and be barren of bounty to those who please them . 5 One might , on this occasion , recount the sense that great persons in all ages have had of the merit of their depend- ants , and the heroic services which men have done ...
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... pleased to observe on one side the hearty and sincere welcome with which Sir Roger received him , and on the other , the secret joy which his guest discovered at sight of the good old knight . After the first salutes were over , Will ...
... pleased to observe on one side the hearty and sincere welcome with which Sir Roger received him , and on the other , the secret joy which his guest discovered at sight of the good old knight . After the first salutes were over , Will ...
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... pleased with a country Sunday , and think , if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution , it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of 25 mankind . It is certain the ...
... pleased with a country Sunday , and think , if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution , it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of 25 mankind . It is certain the ...
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Strona 46 - ... 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 inquires how...
Strona 41 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Strona 6 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Strona 25 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Strona 46 - 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
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