Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The De Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'

All rights reserved by J. M. DENT & SONS LTD Aldine House · Bedford Street · London Made in Great Britain at The Aldine Press · Letchworth · Herts First published in this edition 1920 Last reprinted 1955

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

I was this morning surprised with a great knocking at the door, when my landlady's daughter came up to me, and told me that there was a man below desired to speak with me. Upon...

3. Chapter 3

This extraordinary letter, and message that accompanied it, made me very curious to know the character and quality of the gentleman who sent them; which I found to be as follows...

2. Chapter 2

The person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Freeport, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London. A person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experie...

6. Chapter 6

"However, when I reflect upon this woman, I do not know whether in the main I am the worse for having loved her: whenever she is recalled to my imagination my youth returns, and...

4. Chapter 4

As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for, if by chance he has been surpri...

5. Chapter 5

After what has been said, I need not inform my readers that Sir Roger, with whose character I hope they are at present pretty well acquainted, has in his youth gone through the...

1. Chapter 1

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8. Chapter 8

As I was sitting in my chamber and thinking on a subject for my next _Spectator_, I heard two or three irregular bounces[182] at my landlady's door, and upon the opening of it,...