Defoe's Robinson CrusoeHenry Holt, 1911 - 370 sidor |
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... Island of Despair . Like others of their class , Defoe's parents were Dissenters or Noncon- formists ; that is to say , they dissented from the doctrines of the Church of England , and refused to conform to the ritual established by ...
... Island of Despair . Like others of their class , Defoe's parents were Dissenters or Noncon- formists ; that is to say , they dissented from the doctrines of the Church of England , and refused to conform to the ritual established by ...
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... island and really spent many years there in an endeavor to make himself comfortable . It all seems as true to fact as the Autobiography of Ben- jamin Franklin . Such , however , is far from the case . Robinson Crusoe is in the main an ...
... island and really spent many years there in an endeavor to make himself comfortable . It all seems as true to fact as the Autobiography of Ben- jamin Franklin . Such , however , is far from the case . Robinson Crusoe is in the main an ...
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... Island of Despair . By the first of these books Defoe wrote his name into English literature for all time . 66 Having discovered his surpassing talent at the age of sixty , Defoe now followed up his first success with nu- merous ...
... Island of Despair . By the first of these books Defoe wrote his name into English literature for all time . 66 Having discovered his surpassing talent at the age of sixty , Defoe now followed up his first success with nu- merous ...
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... island . How Selkirk managed to live there alone for four years and four months , it will be pleasant to read in some extracts from the narrative of Captain Woodes Rogers , the old sea - dog who discovered him and brought him home ...
... island . How Selkirk managed to live there alone for four years and four months , it will be pleasant to read in some extracts from the narrative of Captain Woodes Rogers , the old sea - dog who discovered him and brought him home ...
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... island . How Selkirk managed to live there alone for four years and four months , it will be pleasant to read in some extracts from the narrative of Captain Woodes Rogers , the old sea - dog who discovered him and brought him home ...
... island . How Selkirk managed to live there alone for four years and four months , it will be pleasant to read in some extracts from the narrative of Captain Woodes Rogers , the old sea - dog who discovered him and brought him home ...
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Sida 166 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand : I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition...
Sida 170 - Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.
Sida 352 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Sida 353 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Sida 229 - I called him so for the memory of the time. I likewise taught him to say master, and then let him know that was to be my name. I likewise taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them.
Sida 39 - I walked about on the shore, lifting up my hands and my •whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance, making a thousand gestures and motions which I cannot describe, reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned, and that there should not be one soul saved but myself; for, as for them, I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Sida 169 - I was alone, circumscribed by the boundless ocean, cut off" from mankind, and condemned to what I call a silent life ; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the living, or to appear among the rest of his creatures ; that to have seen one of my own species, would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow...
Sida 167 - ... looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes affrighted imagination represented things to me in, how many wild ideas were found every moment in my fancy, and what strange unaccountable whimsies came into my thoughts by the way.
Sida 167 - When I came to my castle (for so I think I called it ever after this), I fled into it like one pursued ; whether I went over by the ladder, as first contrived, or went in at the hole in the rock, which I...
Sida 167 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...