Days with Sir Roger De Coverley

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison

(Originally published in THE SPECTATOR) CONTENTS.

Joseph Addison

I. 1891 [advertisement] EACH IN THREE VOLS., PRICE 10s.

Joseph Addison

The author of this tragedy, to whose vigorous mind the English are indebted for their choicest moral works, came into the world with a frame so weak, that he was christened immediately on his birth...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.