 I have often thought, says sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter. It is the most dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had...  Old and New - Page 704edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought,' says Sir Roger, ' it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm fires,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...hog's-puddings with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter. It is the most dead and uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...hogs-puddings with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. I have often thought, says sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm fires,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought,' says Sir Roger, ' it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would sutler very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm tires,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...Barrow, will escape those who do not know that to make a sermon is the common phrase {or preaching. happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of the winter. It is the most dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought,' says Sir Roger, ' it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suftc'r very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm iires,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought,' says Sir Roger, ' n, printer. prince was at tliii time in London, and much caressed by the queen ain! her courtier*, t Set No:. 103,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought, says Sir Roger, ' it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm fires,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...with a pack of cards to every poor family in the parish. ' I have often thought,' says Sir Roger, ' it happens very well that Christmas should fall out...dead uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm fires,... | |
 | Edward Nares - Heraldry - 1823 - 386 pages
...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." " I have often thought," said the kind-hearted Sir Roger de Coverley, " it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of the Winter. It is the most dead, uncomfortable time of the year, when the poor people would suffer... | |
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