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...Copeland will read from "Tristram Shandy" and "The Newcomes" next Wednesday evening, in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock. He will also speak of Sir Roger de Coverley, Colonel Newcome, and other literary descendants of Don Quixete...
...LECTURE. "Sir Roger de Coverley, Colonel Newcome, and other literary descendants of Don Quixote." Reading from "Tristram Shandy" and "The Newcomes." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...daily. It was very different from the Tatler, as it excluded politics and was in no way a newspaper. The first number appeared in 1711 and continued for somewhat over a year with great success. Steele created the Spectator Club, and among other characters that of Sir Roger de Coverley. Steele had much the greater facility at the invention of incident and character, while Addison could tone these down and get them in proper form, as his friend could not. In December 1712 the Spectator came to an end, Addison in the last number killing Sir Roger, as he states...
...near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects in the German school. Part of the lecture was occupied in readings from "Sir Roger de Coverley." Those who had read Sir Roger recognize and appreciate Mr. Perry's efforts to bring out the "delicate touches" of the work. The effect on subsequent English writers, the success of the works from a financial standpoint, both were discussed with much spirit. The subsequent works, the outgrowth of the "Spectator...
...year examination in English 5 will be on subjects taken from the following works: The Idyls of the King (to be read chronologically), Sir Roger de Coverley papers, and speeches of Webster and Haines...