Sir Roger de Coverly: Essays from the SpectatorMacmillan & Company, Limited, 1899 - 166 страници |
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... given time , take the stage - coach which passed . once a week on its way to the great metropolis . Pub- lic schools were being instituted , but they were few , and most people were uneducated could neither read nor write . Society , in ...
... given time , take the stage - coach which passed . once a week on its way to the great metropolis . Pub- lic schools were being instituted , but they were few , and most people were uneducated could neither read nor write . Society , in ...
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... foothold had been gained that publishers could afford to pay the few cents extra . Another set - back was given when the government at- tempted to control all publications ; and it was a EVOLUTION OF THE SPECTATOR xxix.
... foothold had been gained that publishers could afford to pay the few cents extra . Another set - back was given when the government at- tempted to control all publications ; and it was a EVOLUTION OF THE SPECTATOR xxix.
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... given , but before the eighteenth century . no Parliamentary proceedings were allowed to be pub- lished . All startling adventures were seized upon and embellished to suit the taste of a shallow public . Petty personalities then as now ...
... given , but before the eighteenth century . no Parliamentary proceedings were allowed to be pub- lished . All startling adventures were seized upon and embellished to suit the taste of a shallow public . Petty personalities then as now ...
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... given to forming and raising the stand- ard of public opinion in " manners , morals , art , and literature . " The editors hoped to meet the needs of all people , but especially the needs of women . Addi- son realized that through them ...
... given to forming and raising the stand- ard of public opinion in " manners , morals , art , and literature . " The editors hoped to meet the needs of all people , but especially the needs of women . Addi- son realized that through them ...
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... given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have undertaken . As 15 for other particulars in my life and adventures , I shall insert them in following ...
... given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have undertaken . As 15 for other particulars in my life and adventures , I shall insert them in following ...
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Страница 64 - 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-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Страница 44 - 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.
Страница 43 - ... 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.
Страница 140 - 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...
Страница 9 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humorsome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Страница 141 - And strait 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...
Страница 29 - My chief companion, when 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 some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation.
Страница 30 - ... desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. 'My friend...
Страница 28 - 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.
Страница 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 such an one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church ; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.