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"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner"
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"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner"
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Date: 1719
"There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, though not in View, yet render'd present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embrac...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I was not so much surpriz'd with the Lightning, as I was with a Thought which darted into my Mind as swift as the Lightning it self: O my Powder!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
