Some illustrations from
Robinson
Crusoe
by N. C. Wyeth
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"My Father, a wise and grave Man, gave me serious excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design." |
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"For a Mile, or thereabouts, my Raft went very well..." |
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"...and making it into a great Cross I set it up on the Shore where I first landed..." |
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"All this while I sat upon the Ground very much terrify'd and dejected..." |
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"In the Morning I took the Bible, and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it..." |
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"...I reap'd it my Way, for I cut nothing off but the Ears, and carry'd it away in a great Basket which I had made..." |
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Robinson Crusoe on the beach. |
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"...and thus I every now and then took a little Voyage upon the Sea..." |
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"I stood like one Thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an Apparition..." |
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"I laid me down flat on my Belly, on the Ground, and began to look for the Place..." |
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"...and then he kneel'd down again, kiss'd the Ground, and laid his Head upon the Ground, and taking me by the Foot, set my Foot upon his Head..." |
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"...we cut and hew'd the out-side into the true Shape of a Boat..." |
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"...and no sooner had he the Arms in his Hands, but as if they had put new Vigour into him, he flew upon his Murtherers, like a Fury..." |
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"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one Word; but as he had taken me in his Arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the Ground." |