"Daniel defoe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men like Addison and Steele were much in evidence at these friendly gatherings of their day; that Jonathan Swift and his coteric foregathered in some cosy corner to discuss the pros and cons of that great fraud, the South Sea Bubble; that Daniel Defoe was a constant guest of the host of his time; that John Wilkes and his fellow-members of "The Hell Fire Club" used the house for their meetings, and many others the recital of whose names would resolve into a ...
— The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz
... Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. Illustrated by above 100 Pictures by Gordon Browne. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
... Alexander Selkirk, who was left there from one of Lord Anson's ships, and a first-rate writer—Daniel Defoe by name— got hold of his account, on which he founded the story ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston
... Paganel, "I know few islands without some tale of the kind appertaining to them, and the romance of your immortal countryman, Daniel Defoe, has been often enough realized ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne
... Daniel Defoe is, perhaps, best known to us as the author of Robinson Crusoe, a book which has been the delight of generations of boys and girls ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century. For it was then that Defoe lived and wrote, being ...
— Memoirs of a Cavalier • Daniel Defoe |
