The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 7Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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... Robinson Crusoe with delight , and derived from it a satisfaction in no wise diminished by repeated perusal , have never bestowed a thought on its author , or , indeed , regarded it in the light of a literary performance . While its ...
... Robinson Crusoe with delight , and derived from it a satisfaction in no wise diminished by repeated perusal , have never bestowed a thought on its author , or , indeed , regarded it in the light of a literary performance . While its ...
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... Robinson Crusoe ; while his manly good sense , unaffected earnestness , and fund of native intelligence , have placed him very far above those who presume to undervalue his literary acquirements . According to the latest and most ...
... Robinson Crusoe ; while his manly good sense , unaffected earnestness , and fund of native intelligence , have placed him very far above those who presume to undervalue his literary acquirements . According to the latest and most ...
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... Robinson Crusoe , represented the Spanish character under its most amiable traits , and in a tone that may almost pass for panegyric . This voyage , as we have already remarked , doubt- lessly contributed to store his observant mind ...
... Robinson Crusoe , represented the Spanish character under its most amiable traits , and in a tone that may almost pass for panegyric . This voyage , as we have already remarked , doubt- lessly contributed to store his observant mind ...
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... Robinson Crusoe was first published in the year 1719 , and its popularity may be said to have been established immediately , since four editions were called for in about as many months , a circumstance at that time almost unprecedented ...
... Robinson Crusoe was first published in the year 1719 , and its popularity may be said to have been established immediately , since four editions were called for in about as many months , a circumstance at that time almost unprecedented ...
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... Robinson Crusoe , which has been ascribed , by some , to Arbuthnot ; by others , to Defoe's patron , the first earl of Oxford . Those who have wished to gain credit for the latter opinion , assert that it was composed by that nobleman ...
... Robinson Crusoe , which has been ascribed , by some , to Arbuthnot ; by others , to Defoe's patron , the first earl of Oxford . Those who have wished to gain credit for the latter opinion , assert that it was composed by that nobleman ...
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Page 184 - My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects ; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked.
Page 34 - 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...
Page 43 - what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off of the ground. One of those knives is worth all this heap. I have no manner of use for thee. E'en remain where thou art and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving.
Page 112 - It would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner. There was my Majesty, the prince and lord of the whole island. I had the lives of all my subjects at my absolute command — I could hang, draw, give liberty, and take it away; and no rebels among all my subjects.
Page 157 - ... not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump ; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes ; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and as white as ivory.
Page 117 - 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 on the sand.
Page 155 - At length he came close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head. This, it seems, was in token of swearing to be my slave forever.
Page 117 - 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 - - \ tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.