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Pagina 93
... Sir Roger's company com- plains he is out of order , he immediately calls for some posset - drink for him ; for which reason that sort of people who are ever bewailing their constitution in other places are the cheerfullest imaginable ...
... Sir Roger's company com- plains he is out of order , he immediately calls for some posset - drink for him ; for which reason that sort of people who are ever bewailing their constitution in other places are the cheerfullest imaginable ...
Pagina 99
... Sir Roger de Coverley , a whimsical country knight , and a Templar whose name he has not transmitted to us . He lived as a lodger at the house of a widow - woman , and was a great humourist in all parts of his life . This is all we can ...
... Sir Roger de Coverley , a whimsical country knight , and a Templar whose name he has not transmitted to us . He lived as a lodger at the house of a widow - woman , and was a great humourist in all parts of his life . This is all we can ...
Pagina 117
... Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country , I last week accompanied him thither , and am settled with him for some time at his country - house , where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations . Sir ...
... Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country , I last week accompanied him thither , and am settled with him for some time at his country - house , where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations . Sir ...
Pagina 119
... Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields , is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger , and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years . This gentleman is a person of good sense and ...
... Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields , is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger , and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years . This gentleman is a person of good sense and ...
Pagina 120
... Sir Roger was going on in his story , the gentle- man we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to - morrow ( for it was Saturday night ) told us , the bishop of St. Asaph in the morning , and Dr ...
... Sir Roger was going on in his story , the gentle- man we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to - morrow ( for it was Saturday night ) told us , the bishop of St. Asaph in the morning , and Dr ...
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Pagina 144 - ... subjects, 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.
Pagina 368 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Pagina 369 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Pagina 367 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Pagina 119 - Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging 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 dependant.
Pagina 371 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates...
Pagina 164 - 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-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Pagina 366 - I was at Grand Cairo I picked up several oriental manuscripts, which I have still by me. Among others I met with one entitled, " The Visions of Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure.
Pagina 193 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Pagina 127 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.