The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From "The Spectator"Ginn, 1899 - 178 страници |
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... fall of the Whigs in 1710 , Addison lost his sec- retaryship . In a letter to a friend , written in 1711 , he said that within twelve months he had lost a place of £ 2000 a year and an estate in the Indies of £ 14,000 . The accession of ...
... fall of the Whigs in 1710 , Addison lost his sec- retaryship . In a letter to a friend , written in 1711 , he said that within twelve months he had lost a place of £ 2000 a year and an estate in the Indies of £ 14,000 . The accession of ...
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... fall of the Whigs loses his office . Made one of the commis- sioners of the Stamp Office . Loses his position as Gazet- teer . The Tatler discontinued in 1709 . 1710 . Translation of parts of Books XII . and XVI . of the Iliad . Swift ...
... fall of the Whigs loses his office . Made one of the commis- sioners of the Stamp Office . Loses his position as Gazet- teer . The Tatler discontinued in 1709 . 1710 . Translation of parts of Books XII . and XVI . of the Iliad . Swift ...
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... fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary estate , which , according to the tradition of the village where it lies , was bounded by the same hedges and ...
... fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary estate , which , according to the tradition of the village where it lies , was bounded by the same hedges and ...
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... fall on some divine topic , which he always treats with much authority , as one who has no interests in this world , as one who is hasten- 20 ing to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities ...
... fall on some divine topic , which he always treats with much authority , as one who has no interests in this world , as one who is hasten- 20 ing to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities ...
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... falling upon aldermen and citizens , and employ your pen upon the vanity and luxury of courts , your paper 10 must needs be of general use . " Upon this my friend the Templar told Sir Andrew that he wondered to hear a man of his sense ...
... falling upon aldermen and citizens , and employ your pen upon the vanity and luxury of courts , your paper 10 must needs be of general use . " Upon this my friend the Templar told Sir Andrew that he wondered to hear a man of his sense ...
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Страница 155 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Страница xxvii - 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 coffeehouses.
Страница 128 - ... 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 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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
Страница 3 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Страница 1 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.