 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1908 - 496 pages
...laughing a folly out of countenance."—DRYDEN. Addison satirized Sir Roger very gently when he said: "As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation,...will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself.'' Here he is ridiculing those country gentlemen who observe the outward forms of religion by going to... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms, upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed outdo most...besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms: upon which they now ayed, My brother John and I. 56 ' ' And when the ground was into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 458 pages
...clear, while the valley vapor gains again upon the earth like a shroud? "Cloud Beauty." JOHN RUSKIN. 2. As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation,...in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprized into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - 1912 - 296 pages
...country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms, upon which they now very much value themselves, and, indeed, outdo most...besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms ; upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed outdo most...besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 pages
...imprisonment. We are quietly amused at such touches as this in the delineation of Sir Roger: — " As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation,...besides himself; for, if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and, if he... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 pages
...imprisonment. We are quietly amused at such touches as this in the delineation of Sir Roger : — " As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation,...besides himself; for, if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and, if he... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms; upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed out-do most...besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1914 - 262 pages
...very much value themselves, and indeed outdo most of the country churches that I have ever heard. 10 As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation,...besides himself; for, if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees... | |
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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 surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and... 
