The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers
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BASED ON ROCQUE'S MAP OF LONDON IN 1741-5
OF ENGLISH TEXTS
GENERAL EDITOR
HENRY VAN DYKE
Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. Professor C. T. Winchester, Wesleyan University. 40 cents.
Burke's Speech on Conciliation. Professor William MacDonald, Brown University. 35 cents.
Byron, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Browning. Professor C. T. Copeland, Harvard University.
Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Professor Edwin Mims, Trinity College, North Carolina. 35 cents.
Joseph Addison
Eustace Budgell
Sir Richard Steele
Transcriber's Notes
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. The Spectator
II. The Club
III. Sir Roger's Criticisms on Polite Society
IV. The Club and the Spectator
V. A Lady's Library
VI. Coverley Hall
VII. The Coverley Household
VIII. Will Wimble
IX. The Coverley Ancestry
X. The Coverley Ghost
XI. Sunday with Sir Roger
XII. Sir Roger in Love
XIII. How to bear Poverty
XIV. Labour and Exercise
XV. Sir Roger goes A-Hunting
XVI. The Coverley Witch
XVII. Sir Roger talks of the Widow
XVIII. Manners in the Country
XIX. Sir Roger at the Assizes
XX. The Education of an Heir
XXI. Whigs and Tories
XXIII. Sir Roger and the Gipsies
XXIV. The Spectator decides to return to London
XXV. The Journey to London
XXVI. Sir Roger and Sir Andrew in Argument
XXVII. Sir Roger in London
XXVIII. Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey.
XXIX. Sir Roger at the Play
XXX. Will Honeycomb's Experiences
XXXI. Sir Roger at Vauxhall
XXXII. The Death of Sir Roger
XXXIII. Captain Sentry as Master of Coverley Hall
FOOTNOTES