Defoe's Robinson CrusoeHenry Holt, 1911 - 370 sider |
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Side xiii
... turned his room into an editorial office , whence issued from his pen a newspaper called the Review , at first once , then twice , and finally three times a week . With little or no aid from others , he composed week after week weighty ...
... turned his room into an editorial office , whence issued from his pen a newspaper called the Review , at first once , then twice , and finally three times a week . With little or no aid from others , he composed week after week weighty ...
Side xiv
... reign of Queen Anne . His old oc- cupation disappearing , Defoe at once turned the art of interesting people , which he had acquired by long prac- tice in journalism , to real and imaginary biography , xiv Introduction.
... reign of Queen Anne . His old oc- cupation disappearing , Defoe at once turned the art of interesting people , which he had acquired by long prac- tice in journalism , to real and imaginary biography , xiv Introduction.
Side xxi
... turned his room into an editorial office , whence issued from his pen a newspaper called the Review , at first once , then twice , and finally three times a week . With little or no aid from others , he composed week after week weighty ...
... turned his room into an editorial office , whence issued from his pen a newspaper called the Review , at first once , then twice , and finally three times a week . With little or no aid from others , he composed week after week weighty ...
Side xxi
... reign of Queen Anne . His old oc- cupation disappearing , Defoe at once turned the art of interesting people , which he had acquired by long prac tice in journalism , to real and imaginary biography , xiv Introduction.
... reign of Queen Anne . His old oc- cupation disappearing , Defoe at once turned the art of interesting people , which he had acquired by long prac tice in journalism , to real and imaginary biography , xiv Introduction.
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... turned , I entirely forgot the vows and promises that I made in my distress . I found indeed some intervals of reflection , and the serious thoughts did , as it were , en- deavor to return again sometimes ; but I shook them off , and ...
... turned , I entirely forgot the vows and promises that I made in my distress . I found indeed some intervals of reflection , and the serious thoughts did , as it were , en- deavor to return again sometimes ; but I shook them off , and ...
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afterwards barley began boat Brazils bread bring brought called canoe captain carried cave coast comfort condition corn creature danger Daniel Defoe Defoe Defoe's deliverance desolate island devoured dreadful England English escape father fell fire flesh foot Friday frighted gave goats gone ground hands head hill House of Hanover iron crows island killed kind knew labor land Lisbon lived look master mind moidores morning never night observed occasion pieces pieces of eight pimento plantation poor powder Providence raft rain reason resolved rest Robin Crusoe Robinson Crusoe rock sail savages saved seemed Selkirk ship shore shot side soon Spaniard storm surprised things thought tide told Tom Smith took tree voyage wild wind wood Woodes Rogers word wreck Xury ΙΟ
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Side 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...
Side 170 - Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...