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acquainted Addison admired afterwards appears beauty bishop Budgell called celebrated character church countess COUNTESS OF WARWICK Coverley Craggs DEAR SIR death dison Dryden Duke Earl elegant English entertainment esteem friendship gentleman Guardian HENRY SACHEVERELL honour Hughes humble servant humour Iliad Italian Italy Joseph Addison king Kit-cat Club knight lady Lancelot Addison letter live look Lord Halifax Lordship manner Marino ment nature never observed occasion opinion paper person play pleasure poem poet Pope Pope's present published Queen racter remarkable republic republic of St Rimini Roger de Coverley Roman Rome says secretary shew shewn SIR RICHARD STEELE Sir Roger Spectator Steele's style Swift Tatler tell thing thought Tickell Tickell's tion told tragedy of Cato translation travelling verses Voltaire volume Warwick whig whole Wortley writings written wrote
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Seite 212 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quitrents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shews great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Seite 256 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Seite 189 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern, to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Seite 177 - Roger's family because it consists of sober and staid persons; for, as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Seite 175 - 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.
Seite 187 - 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 how such an one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church ; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.
Seite 176 - I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please; dine at his own table, or in my chamber, as I think fit ; sit still, and say nothing, without bidding me be merry.
Seite 176 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my...
Seite 76 - Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Seite 175 - 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 up stairs to a visit. I must not omit that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum; that he fills the chair at a quarter-session with great abilities; and, three months ago, gained universal applause by explaining a passage in the Game Act.