Sir Roger de Coverley

Joseph Addison

Ticknor, 1852 - 233 Seiten

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Not yet read. Very pleasant to handle and handsome. Three quarter crimson calf, gold tooling. Page edges marbled. Engravings and etchings very vigorous. High production standard. This volume bound for St Margaret's Folkestone 1903

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This little gem of a book presents a set of essays that were printed in the "Spectator" back in the early 1700s. They bring the reader into the society of a fine old country gentleman, Sir Roger de ...

Inhalt

• The Authors Preface 1: xiii
• Sir Roger and the Club: 9
• Coverley Hall: 18
• The Coverley Household: 24
• The Coverley Guest: 30
• The Coverley Lineage: 36
• The Coverley Ghost: 43
• The Coverley Sabbath: 48
• Sir Roger in Love: 53
• The Coverley Economy: 62
• The Coverley Hunt: 67
• The Coverley Witch: 76
• A Coverley Love Match: 82
• The Coverley Etiquette: 89
• The Coverley Ducks: 94
• Sir Roger on the Bench: 100
• A Story of an Heir: 106
• Sir Roger and Party Spirit: 114
• On Gipseys in General O: 121
• A Summons to London: 125
• Farewell to Coverley Hall: 130

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 161 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...

Seite 195 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

Seite 163 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last...

Seite 46 - I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...

Seite 18 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.

Seite 96 - ... an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.

Seite 16 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...

Seite 73 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.

Seite 137 - 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 not good Cheer, warm Fires, and Christmas Gambols to support them. I love to rejoyce their poor Hearts at this Season, and to see the whole Village merry in my great Hall.

Seite 55 - As soon as I thought my retinue suitable to the character of my fortune and youth, I set out from hence to make my addresses. The particular skill of this lady has ever been to inflame your wishes, and yet command respect. To make her mistress of this art, she has a greater share of knowledge, wit, and good sense than is usual even among men of merit.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: Sir Roger de Coverley
• Autor/in: Joseph Addison
• Verlag: Ticknor, 1852
• Original von: Harvard University
• Digitalisiert: 22. Febr. 2006
• Länge: 233 Seiten