Stoke Newington, a Lecture
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ISBN13: 9780217880886
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: countered the keen eye, and big, round face ot the Puritan Regicide, with his coafr-of-mail next his skin, as though he might any moment suffer the violent death he had inflicted on his rightful sovereign ? The knocker still stands on the door, where, it is said, he once sought admittance, when benighted on his way. You may search out the very chamber where Fleetwood trembled over the progress made at Breda for bringing home King Charles II., where he laid aside for ever the symbols of power, and wept over the loss of the sceptre, offered him so often by the pretorian guards. Crossing the street, you are still enthralled by scenes associated with remarkable events. There stands the house in which Daniel De Foe wrote the tale of England's union with Scotlanda negotiation owing its success to his hardihood and skill. There are the rooms (for I cannot bear to think that the queer buildings have been enlarged or altered), there are the cellars, with bolts on the inside as well as outside of the doors, where he abused and plotted against the government, and instructed and delighted mankind. In the retirement of that spot, he conjured out of the rude materials of Alexander Selkirk's story, the glorious fiction of Robinson Crusoe. Man Friday is the creation, not of St. Juan Fernandez, but of Stoke New- ington; and Robinson, the friend of English boys, and I might say of all boys, Sclavonian and Arabic, Indian and Persian, or born in Sydney or Tenessee, (for where is the language in which Crusoe has not told his tale ?)Robinson was not born, as De Foe would have us believe, at York; but sprang, like Minerva from the head of Jove, full armed and grown out of Daniel's own brain, at work in Church Street. And now a softer and more genial set of thoughts awakens within us. Beneath the spre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217880886 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217880886 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $13.08 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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