The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator |
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Volledige weergave - 1892 |
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from "The Spectator" Joseph Addison,Sir Richard Steele,Eustace Budgell Volledige weergave - 1925 |
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Pagina 18 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the...
Pagina 5 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Pagina 17 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Pagina 83 - ... an immediate impression from the first Mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.
Pagina 138 - Captain Sentry, seeing two or three wags who sat near us lean with an attentive ear towards Sir Roger, and fearing lest they should smoke the knight, plucked him by the elbow, and whispered something in his ear, that lasted till the opening of the fifth act.
Pagina 91 - Such-a-onc, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend, Sir Roger, heard them both upon a round trot ; and, after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that " Much might be said on both sides.
Pagina 24 - The probity of his mind, and the integrity of his life, create him followers, as being eloquent or loud advances others. He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon ; but we are so far gone in years, that he observes when he is among us an earnestness to have him fall on some divine...
Pagina 44 - Roger's house, among the ruins of an old abbey, there is a long walk of aged elms ; which are shot up so very high, that when one passes under them, the rooks and crows that rest upon the tops of them seem to be cawing in another region. I am very much delighted with this sort of noise, which I consider as a kind of natural prayer to that Being who supplies the wants of his whole creation, and who, in the beautiful language of the Psalms ', feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.
Pagina 129 - The glorious names of Henry the Fifth and queen Elizabeth gave the knight great opportunities of shining, and of doing justice to Sir Richard Baker, who, as our knight observed with some surprise, had a great many kings in him, whose monuments he had not seen in the abbey.
Pagina 146 - 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
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| Titel | The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator Eclectic English classics |
| Auteurs | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell |
| Uitgever | American Book Company, 1892 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 maart 2007 |
| Lengte | 148 pagina's |
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