The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from "The Spectator".Longmans, Green and Company, 1922 |
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الصفحة xxxi - little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise :— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he
الصفحة 79 - a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend.
الصفحة 33 - his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colors. As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned, and without staying for my answer,
الصفحة xviii - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's chocolatehouse; poetry, under that of Will's coffee-house; learning, under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. James's coffee-house; and what else I have to offer on any other subject shall be dated from my own apartment.
الصفحة 7 - wrong. However, this humor creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms, makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him. When he is in town, he lives in Soho Square.
الصفحة 41 - in his pocket from one to another, or exchanges a puppy between a couple of friends that live perhaps in the opposite sides of the county. Will is a particular favorite of all the young heirs, whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved, or a setting-dog that he has made
الصفحة 10 - a merchant of great eminence in the city of London, a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man)
الصفحة 8 - company; when he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit. I must not omit that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum; 5 that he fills the chair at a quarter-session
الصفحة 76 - so sanded," and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew : Crook-knee'd and dew-lapp'd' like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouths, like bells, Each under each,
الصفحة 33 - 1 and that his virtues as well as imperfections are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders