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A linked series of essays sketches an affable country squire, his household, and the local society through gentle anecdotes, club-room conversations, and descriptive portraits. The pieces mix light satire with moral reflection, treating manners, hospitality, rural pastimes, visits to the city, and the interplay of tradition and change. Recurring scenes and characters provide continuity while individual papers vary between narrative incident and conversational commentary. The overall tone is urbane and affectionate, inviting readers to observe social customs and human foibles with humour and restraint.

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Title: The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

Author: Joseph Addison

Eustace Budgell

Sir Richard Steele

Editor: C. T. Winchester

Release date: January 19, 2015 [eBook #48026]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Variations in spelling, punctuation and accents are as in the original.

Each page in the main body of the book has every 5th line numbered. The Notes section (page 217 onwards) refers back to the main body by page and line number. In order to preserve this association, the line numbers have been enclosed in brackets thus {5} and left in position. The first reference to each page in the notes is linked to the relevant page.

Not all pages have notes and no reference is made to the notes in the original text. As such a facility might prove useful, the first line number {5} on any page for which there are notes has been linked to the relevant notes section.

BASED ON ROCQUE'S MAP OF LONDON IN 1741-5

OF ENGLISH TEXTS

GENERAL EDITOR

HENRY VAN DYKE


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Burke's Speech on Conciliation. Professor William MacDonald, Brown University. 35 cents.

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GATEWAY SERIES


THE
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY
PAPERS

EDITED BY

C. T. WINCHESTER, L.H.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY


Copyright, 1904, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
W. P. 2