The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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Página viii
... Roger de Coverley's seat , and there see English coun- try life as it was a century and a half ago , we can compare it with the English country life in our own time , and then determine whether we have become more generous , more ...
... Roger de Coverley's seat , and there see English coun- try life as it was a century and a half ago , we can compare it with the English country life in our own time , and then determine whether we have become more generous , more ...
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... Roger de Coverley , two portraitures to which he devoted himself , are great artistical productions which may be compared with the finest delineations in English literature . Yet there is a curious want of harmony in the ideas of Steele ...
... Roger de Coverley , two portraitures to which he devoted himself , are great artistical productions which may be compared with the finest delineations in English literature . Yet there is a curious want of harmony in the ideas of Steele ...
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... ROGER DE COVERLEY . ↑ His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance * Many touches in the character of the Spectator will remind the reader of Addison himself . In general society he was quite as silent as this ...
... ROGER DE COVERLEY . ↑ His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance * Many touches in the character of the Spectator will remind the reader of Addison himself . In general society he was quite as silent as this ...
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... ROGER . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour . but his singu- larities proceed from his good ... de Coverley is pointed out . It may be also observed that , with the exception of this paper ( No. 2 ) , which was ...
... ROGER . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour . but his singu- larities proceed from his good ... de Coverley is pointed out . It may be also observed that , with the exception of this paper ( No. 2 ) , which was ...
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... ROGER DE COVERLEY . † His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance * Many touches in the character of the Spectator will remind the reader of Addison himself . In general society he was quite as silent as this imagi ...
... ROGER DE COVERLEY . † His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance * Many touches in the character of the Spectator will remind the reader of Addison himself . In general society he was quite as silent as this imagi ...
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acquaintance actions ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character Cicero club consider conversation Covent Garden creature delight desire discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head hear heard heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent kind lady laugh learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage matter means mind nature never obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure poet present proper racter reader reason ROGER DE COVERLEY Sappho sense shew Sir ROGER Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR speculation STEELE tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
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Página 306 - 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.
Página 306 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place ; and that he...
Página 422 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer ; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mixt with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Página 290 - Greek at his own table, for which reason he 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...
Página 12 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Página 306 - ... 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...
Página 303 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at...
Página 307 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and...
Página 32 - 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.
Página 283 - In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.