Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator

Excerpt from The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers From the Spectator: Edited for School Use A chief aim of this book is, through its suggestions for study, to relate the reading of a great masterpiece to the student's everyday experience and to his practice as a writer of English. For the most valuable of lessons in writing, for the admirable doing of what we all constantly try to do, there could be nothing better than the 8277' Roger (ze Coverley Papers. Their wide range of interest and vivid portrayal of everyday life make them at once stimulus and example to the appreciative student and a wise use of them in the classroom should leave him not only with a deepened love of literature but with a fair working knowledge 01' the principles of prose composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.