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...Edward D. Seeber Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 OROONOKO AND CRUSOE’S MAN FRIDAY By EDWARDD. SEEBER Some years ago, Professor Arthur W. Secord published a method- ical investigation of the sources of Robinson Crusoe,l with abundant...

... in a sublunary state” (222) — after reclaiming Friday’s life and soul from savagery and cannibalism and sharing with him a state of restored penitence. Crusoe goes through a secular conversion that both socializes him and transforms him from a slave trafficker in “the Brasils,” with a “rash...

... performances are recorded in the Daily Post and in the Latreille Collection, on the following dates : April 23, 26, 28 ; May 19,26,27 ; June 1,2,4. I shall discuss the matter of these dates in detail, since I know of no work in which they are correctly recorded.‘ On Friday, April 23, Monday, April 26...

... Friday, the 6th of April 1327 (as the poet tells us), because Good Friday of that year fell on the loth, or that Petrarch’s ascent of Mont Ventoux (which has earned him the title of the first modern man) may never have taken place, and that his letter (Fam. IV, 1) may merely be an allegorical...

... the date of the postmark, and the “Friday” date then becomes “February 27, 1846.” In a like fashion, Letter 624, dated “Putney Friday Evg,” was very likely written on the same day; but the present order of the other letters in this series must be changed.2 Conjectural dating, again...

... more thorough in his editorial work. For instance, the letter to Smith on page 102 dated Friday [June 18701 is clearly Friday, June 17, 1870, since Arnold mentions in the letter taking a book to Lowe on his trip “to Oxford on Monday.” Both Arnold and Lowe were to receive a D.C.L. from...

... begins with Lent. The point of crisis is reached on Good Friday, and Holy Satur- day and Easter Sunday are devoted to the entombment and Resurrection, respectively. The reversal-recogni tion occurs early on Easter morning and is followed by a week of ceremo- nial...

... to Smith on page 102 dated Friday [June 18701 is clearly Friday, June 17, 1870, since Arnold mentions in the letter taking a book to Lowe on his trip “to Oxford on Monday.” Both Arnold and Lowe were to receive a D.C.L. from Oxford-Arnold on Tuesday, June 21 ; Lowe, Wednesday, June 22. Had...

...: “Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live.. . .” The phrase is echoed in the third of the three fixed Collects for Good Friday: “0 Merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing...

... to have anyone legally declared non compos mentk. Want- ing to read Crusoe’s story as a georgic of “a wayward son who becomes both founder and father,”Braverman describes Friday as the child of Crusoe’s long- ing who becomes a “son” to him. For evidence of the father-son character...

... Crusoe’s story as a georgic of “a wayward son who becomes both founder and father,”Braverman describes Friday as the child of Crusoe’s long- ing who becomes a “son” to him. For evidence of the father-son character of their relationship, he quotes Crusoe’s delight in teaching Friday “every thing...

... of charity and pronvess were, for ChrCtien, “inimical and that charity must ultimately prevail” (p. 3). Sccontlarily, Fmvlcr makes much of the point that family relationships in the story, notaldy as spelled out hy thc hermit in the Good Friday episode, are “not intended to he realistic” ip. 5...

... murder instigated by his brother the Lord Protector. It was to controvert these charges that Latimer spoke out, in a series of sermons preached before the King and the Court at Westminster on Fridays during Lent, 1549. The sermons, as taken down in shorthand by Thomas Some, were...

... that family relationships in the story, notaldy as spelled out hy thc hermit in the Good Friday episode, are “not intended to he realistic” ip. 5). Thirdly, he agrees ith Loomis that a vengeance-quest thenie h:.hincl the story “hat1 an importarit influence on the poet, even tliough hc supprcssd...

... BlouzeZinda swung. With the rude wind her rumpled garment rose, And show’d her taper leg, and scarlet hose. 22 Philips, Pastorals, 11, 29, in Poems, ed. Segar (Oxford, 1937), p. 11. Gay, “Prologue,” 43. 23 “Monday,” 41-8; cf. Philips, IV, 5-8. See also “Friday,” 83-7...

... wares at the few hamlets and isolated dwellings. Mathias misses the return sailing that day, and waits until the next sailing, which is on Friday. During the interval between his arrival and departure, we accompany him on his rounds, hear some banal, elliptical conversations, and struggle...

... corrective. ‘I’hat his in- sights are of potentially major importance for interpreting the poem may be indicated by his fine pages on Donne’s “Good Friday, 1613. Kiding West- ward.” Nevertheless, I find the volume a little disappointing in its second half, made up of chapters on Herbert...

.... At times, though, the first item of business is to fit a poem into one of the categories, or devise a combination of them, even when that act produces only a reading that has little new to say, as in the comments on Donne’s “Good- friday, 16 13,” Herbert’s “The Flower,” and Marvell’s “The Garden...

... composition had begun by that date.l It is usually said that Thomson and his pupil Talbot returned suddenly from Rome toward the end of 1731, but this is merely an inference from a letter by Thomas Rundle dated simply “Ashdown-Park, Friday Morning, 173 1 The newly discovered letter makes...

... as that in which Dante found himself on the eve of Good Friday in 1300. It has long been known that a small portion of the material upon which a biography of Shelley must be founded is suspect. A number of authentic original documents have more or less extensive lacunae. Much, even of that which...