Daniel Defoein a sentence
- I snuck into the library and took a book from the shelves—a story called Robinson Crusoe by Mr. Defoe.† (source)
- Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being.† (source)
- Swift, Pope, Defoe, Stevenson, Saint Augustine, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch.† (source)
- Borrowing a line from a poem by Daniel Defoe that she knew he would recognize (for he had used it, too), she wrote, "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.† (source)
- His contemporary Daniel Defoe wanted to police the language to the extent that coining a new word would be a crime as grave as counterfeiting money.† (source)
- His memoir, An Historical Relation, was used by Defoe as a psychological source for the ever inquisitive Robinson Crusoe.† (source)
- Defoe helped popularize the novel in Britain.
- But then Mason, Wilson, and John Adams, no less than Jefferson, were, as they all appreciated, drawing on long familiarity with the seminal works of the English and Scottish writers John Locke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Henry St. John Bolingbroke, or such English poets as Defoe ("When kings the sword of justice first lay down, / They are no kings, though they possess the crown.† (source)
- He read Defoe, Smollet, Stern, and Fielding—the fine salt of the English novel lost, during the reign of the Widow of Windsor, beneath an ocean of tea and molasses.† (source)
- "The 'History of the Devil,' by Daniel Defoe,—not quite the right book for a little girl," said Mr. Riley.† (source)
- Author: Daniel Defoe I was born at York, in the year 1632, of a reputable family.† (source)
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- Written from her own Memorandums …. by Daniel Defoe THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases.† (source)
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