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according Addison affection animals appear beautiful behavior better body character comes consider conversation court Coverley creature desired discourse Edited English Essay exercise fall father figure followed fortune friend Sir Roger gave gentleman give greater half hand head hear heard heart honest honor human humor interest July keep kind knight lady learned lives look manner master means meet mention mind motto nature never observed occasion ordinary particular pass passion person pleased pleasure present proper Providence reader reason received says seems sense servants served short side soon soul speak Spectator spirit Steele story taken talking tell things thought tion told took town turn understanding virtue walk whole widow woman writing young
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Pagina 61 - 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.
Pagina 144 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall; innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And straight conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake, Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness; but shall see her...
Pagina 1 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the -world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species...
Pagina 6 - He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another.
Pagina 4 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Pagina 5 - ... 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, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Pagina 8 - He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Pagina 46 - 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...
Pagina 46 - 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.
Pagina 6 - Freeport, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | THE DE COVERLEY PAPERS FROM THE SPECTATOR |
| Auteur | SAMUEL THRBER |
| gepubliceerd | 1898 |
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