The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From "The Spectator"Ginn, 1899 - 178 страници |
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... walking ; he is not in his entire and proper motion . " While the honest knight was thus bewildering himself 15 in good starts , I looked intentively upon him , which made him , I thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at ...
... walking ; he is not in his entire and proper motion . " While the honest knight was thus bewildering himself 15 in good starts , I looked intentively upon him , which made him , I thought , collect his mind a little . " What I aim at ...
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... walk into her lady's library , till such time as she was in a readiness to receive me . The very sound of " a lady's library " gave me a great curiosity to 15 see it ; and as it was some time before the lady came to me , I had an ...
... walk into her lady's library , till such time as she was in a readiness to receive me . The very sound of " a lady's library " gave me a great curiosity to 15 see it ; and as it was some time before the lady came to me , I had an ...
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... walks , twisted into bowers , and filled with cages of turtles . The springs are made to run among pebbles , and by that means taught to murmur very agreeably . 25 They are likewise collected into a beautiful lake that is inhabited by a ...
... walks , twisted into bowers , and filled with cages of turtles . The springs are made to run among pebbles , and by that means taught to murmur very agreeably . 25 They are likewise collected into a beautiful lake that is inhabited by a ...
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... walking in his fields I have 5 observed them stealing a sight of me over an hedge , and have heard the knight desiring them not to let me see them , for that I hated to be stared at . I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family because ...
... walking in his fields I have 5 observed them stealing a sight of me over an hedge , and have heard the knight desiring them not to let me see them , for that I hated to be stared at . I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family because ...
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... walking with him last 30 night , he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ; and without staying for my answer , told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table , for which ...
... walking with him last 30 night , he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ; and without staying for my answer , told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table , for which ...
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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.