Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe, Volume 9University of Illinois, 1924 - 248 pages |
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Page 86 - I believe it was the first gun that had been fired there since the creation of the world...
Page 41 - Hence man may be properly said to be alone in the midst of the crowds and hurry of men and business. All the reflections which he makes are to himself; all that is pleasant he embraces for himself; all that is irksome and grievous is tasted but by his own palate.
Page 203 - This was more evident . . . when in the morning I found the wind had come about to the northwest in the night, and there was not one swallow to be seen, of near a million, which I believe was there the night before.
Page 152 - Johnson said, he had never heard of the book. Lord Eliot had it at Port Eliot; but, after a good deal of inquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its...
Page 28 - I was now entered on the seven and twentieth year of my captivity. . . ." Notice that Crusoe refers to his condition as one of 'captivity.' There are similar expressions common to both which have, to do with their arrangements to secure food and shelter. Says Knox : "Now having settled all business about my allowance, my next concern was to look after a house more convenient, for my present one was too small to dress my victuals in, and to sleep in too . . . ";36 ". . . . and so (I) began to settle...
Page 151 - THE MEMOIRS OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER, Who Serv'd in the Dutch War in 1672. to the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Containing Several Remarkable Transactions both by Sea and Land, and in divers Countries, but chiefly those wherein the Author was personally concern'd.
Page 27 - AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE ISLAND CEYLON, IN THE EAST -INDIES: together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape, Illustrated with Figures, and a Map of the Island By Robert Knox, a Captive there near Twenty Years.
Page 51 - Thence souls of men and cattle spring, And the gay people of the wing, And those strange shapes that ocean hides Beneath the smoothness of his tides. A fiery strength inspires their lives, An essence that...
Page 312 - Nicander, of Colophon, a man totally unconnected with the country, has written well on rural affairs, with the aid of poetical talent, and not from understanding husbandry, what reason is there why an orator should not speak most eloquently on those matters of which he shall have gained a knowledge for a certain purpose and occasion ? For the poet is nearly allied to the orator; being somewhat more restricted in numbers, but less restrained in the choice of words, yet in many kinds of embellishment...
Page 30 - These reasons being urged, there were none among us, that could object ought against them: especially if those that were minded to marry women here did take them for their wives during their lives ; as some of them say they do, and most of the women they marry are such as do profess themselves to be Christians. As for mine own part, however lawful these marriages might...