The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With a Biographical Sketch of Defoe, Written Expressly for this Edition, and Illustrations from Original Designs, Volume 1Cochrane and Pickersgill, and J. Andrews, 1831 |
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Page xxix - 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjur'd ear
Page xviii - It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Page 164 - again by the currents or winds, or any other accident. But now I come to a new scene of my life. 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
Page 53 - the sand, swim away; as for my breeches, which were only linen, and open-knee'd, I swam on board in them, and my stockings. However, this put me on rummaging for clothes, of which I found enough, but took no more than I wanted for present use, for I had other things which my eye was more
Page xviii - for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humor than advised respect.
Page 170 - which these words of the Scripture came into my thoughts, "Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page xlix - having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last strangely delivered by pirates. Written by Himself. London : printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship, in Paternoster-row, 1719. 8vo.
Page 164 - to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition ; I listened, I looked round me, but I could hear nothing nor see any thing; I went up
Page 130 - I resolved to make some as large as I could, and fit only to stand like jars, to hold what should be put into them. However, as the sun baked these two very dry and hard, I lifted them very gently up, and set them down again in two great wicker baskets, which I had made
Page 57 - nor loaded it so hard, but yet I brought away several things very useful to me; as, first, in the carpenter's stores, I found two or three bags of nails and spikes, a great screwjack, a dozen or two of hatchets ; and, above all, that .most useful thing called a grindstone.