The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, Volume 3Hauer and Company, 1842 |
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... judgments upon these data , the Author of ' Robinson Crusoe ' would have nothing to fear from a comparison with that gentle yet mighty spirit which created the half - crazed yet chivalrous Knight of DANIEL DE FOE. ...
... judgments upon these data , the Author of ' Robinson Crusoe ' would have nothing to fear from a comparison with that gentle yet mighty spirit which created the half - crazed yet chivalrous Knight of DANIEL DE FOE. ...
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... Crusoe , of the manners and virtues of the Spaniards who colonized his island . In 1695 his indefatigable endeav- ours at last attracted the notice of the Court , and he was appointed Secretary to a Commission for managing the duties on ...
... Crusoe , of the manners and virtues of the Spaniards who colonized his island . In 1695 his indefatigable endeav- ours at last attracted the notice of the Court , and he was appointed Secretary to a Commission for managing the duties on ...
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... Crusoe : " Whereas Daniel De Foe , alias De Fooe , is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet , entitled The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; he is a middle - sized spare man , about forty years old , of a brown ...
... Crusoe : " Whereas Daniel De Foe , alias De Fooe , is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet , entitled The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; he is a middle - sized spare man , about forty years old , of a brown ...
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... Crusoe . How De Foe , in the construction of this unequalled work , improved upon the meagre account which by common consent is supposed to have given the original idea with what wonderful skill he has invented a series of events ...
... Crusoe . How De Foe , in the construction of this unequalled work , improved upon the meagre account which by common consent is supposed to have given the original idea with what wonderful skill he has invented a series of events ...
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... Crusoe was immediate , steady , and immense in the same year he published a second volume with equal success ... Crusoe , with his Vision of the Angelic World . This work , consist- ing of a number of religious meditations having nothing ...
... Crusoe was immediate , steady , and immense in the same year he published a second volume with equal success ... Crusoe , with his Vision of the Angelic World . This work , consist- ing of a number of religious meditations having nothing ...
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Page 371 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 172 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 229 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Page 116 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 359 - I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Page 90 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Page 358 - Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name "Crusoe," and so my companions always called me.
Page 20 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 127 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 81 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.