Days with Sir Roger de CoverleyMacmillan, 1892 - 110 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 121 - 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. THE
الصفحة 95 - as often has directed a discourse to me which I do not understand. This barbarity has kept me ever at a distance from the most beautiful object my eyes ever beheld. It is thus also she deals with all mankind, and you must make love to her, as you would conquer the sphinx, by
الصفحة 104 - in his youth gone through the whole course of those rural diversions which the country abounds in ; and which seem to be extremely well suited to that laborious industry a man may observe here in a far greater degree than in towns and cities. I have before hinted at some of my friend's exploits : He
الصفحة 109 - Dream. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flu'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning deiv. Crook-kneed and
الصفحة 69 - common prayer-book : and at the same time employed an itinerant singing-master, who goes about the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms ; upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed
الصفحة 75 - 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
الصفحة 119 - by a multitude of persons and affairs that may hinder us from looking into ourselves, which is a view we cannot bear. He afterwards goes on to shew that our love of sports comes from the same reason, and is particularly severe upon hunting. What, says he, unless it be to
الصفحة 35 - to be as follows. Will Wimble is younger brother to a baronet, and descended of the ancient family of the Wimbles. He is now between forty and fifty ; but being bred to no business and born to no estate,
الصفحة 112 - Upon my answering Yes, he immediately called in the dogs, and put them upon the scent. As they were going off, I heard one of the countryfellows muttering to his companion, That 'twas a wonder they had not lost all their sport, for want of the silent gentleman
الصفحة 41 - promised such a present for above this half year. Sir ROGER'S back was no sooner turned but honest Will began to tell me of a large cock-pheasant that he had sprung in one of the neighbouring woods, with two or three other adventures of the same nature. Odd and uncommon characters are the game