The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers, From the Spectator (Twentieth Century Text-Books)

viii, 217 pp. "Sir Roger de Coverley was... the name of a character in The Spectator (1711). An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous ('rather beloved than esteemed' (Spectator no. 2), making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly."