Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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
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 3This 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 2The 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 4As 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 5After 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 1All 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 editio...
8. Chapter 8As 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,...