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innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.For this is to be said of the people of London, that during the whole time of the pestilence the churches or meetings were never wholly shut up, nor did the people decline coming out to the public worship of God, except only in some parishes when the violence of the distemper was more particularly in that parish at that time, and even then no longer than it continued to be so.
10536- innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
. It was indeed a merciful disposition of God, that as the plague began at one end of the town first (as has been observed at large) so it proceeded progressively to other parts, and did not come on this way, or eastward, till it had spent its fury in the West part of the town; and so, as it came on one way, it abated another.
10522 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.Читать далее
In the first place, the Lord Mayor and the sheriffs, the Court of Aldermen, and a certain number of the Common Council men, or their deputies, came to a resolution and published it, viz., that they would not quit the city themselves, but that they would be always at hand for the preserving good order in every place and for the doing justice on all occasions; as also for the distributing the public charity to the poor; and, in a word, for the doing the duty and discharging the trust reposed in them by the citizens to the utmost of their power.
10475 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.Читать далее
These terrors and apprehensions of the people led them into a thousand weak, foolish, and wicked things, which they wanted not a sort of people really wicked to encourage them to: and this was running about to fortune- tellers, cunning-men, and astrologers to know their fortune, or, as it is vulgarly expressed, to have their fortunes told them, their nativities calculated, and the like; and this folly presently made the town swarm with a wicked generation of pretenders to magic, to the black art, as they called it, and I know not what; nay, to a thousand worse dealings with the devil than they were really guilty of. And this trade grew so open and so generally practised that it became common to have signs and inscriptions set up at doors: 'Here lives a fortune-teller', 'Here lives an astrologer', 'Here you may have your nativity calculated', and the like.
10442 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
The Defoe we prize is not a working journalist but a novelist whose method is that of the working journalist. To be termed 'an imaginative writer' would have terrified him. The purpose of the pen was to render, in seemingly unconsidered immediacy, true events, and if the events were strange and surprising then so much the better.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
10422 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
Prosperous again, a Whig gentleman with a shrewish wife and an oyster-wench mistress, he was in no danger as regarding writing as a mere upper-class hobby. Defoe had urgent things to say.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
10403 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.Читать далее
If Defoe, like the conformists, had been permitted by law to receive the traditional (classical) education of Oxford or Cambridge, he might have become merely a lesser Swift. As it was, Defoe was equipped by training, as well as by temperament, to turn into the first really modern writer, his mind disposed to independence, liberalism, and scientific inquiry, master of five languages (though Latin and Greek not among them), his interests immediate and practical, not classical and remote.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
10393 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
A new class was developing, one unconnected with royalty, the Established Church, and the traditions of the agrarian society. It sought salvation in trade and in a kind of Calvinism and it lived in the towns. The old way and the new were not any longer in the conflict of arms, but they were in conflict. Daniel Defoe was born into dialectic.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
10384 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
Defoe was our first great novelist because he was our first great journalist, and he was our first great journalist because he was born, not into literature, but into life.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
10364 - innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012 г.
But rarely in Defoe do we find the cranking of the engine of plot, and never the evocation of classical heroes or the sewing on of classical tags. His novels are too much novels to seem like novels; they read like real life.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
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