Daniel Defoe frasi celebri
da Robinson Crusoe, traduzione di Alberto Cavallari, Feltrinelli
“Tutti gli uomini sarebbero dei tiranni se potessero.”
da The Kentish Petition, 1712-1713
Diario; 1976, p. 200
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe Frasi e Citazioni
“La carità verso i poveri è un dovere, e colui che dà ai poveri presta al Signore.”
Daniel Defoe libro Lady Roxana
Origine: Lady Roxana, p. 22
“La carità comincia a casa propria.”
Daniel Defoe libro Lady Roxana
Variante: Molta carità comincia col vizio.
Origine: Lady Roxana, p. 22
“È male sospettare che un uomo sia cattivo perché è caritatevole, e vizioso perché è buono.”
Daniel Defoe libro Lady Roxana
Origine: Lady Roxana, p. 26
1976, p. 15
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe: Frasi in inglese
The Education of Women (1719)
Pt. II, l. 313. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
The Education of Women (1719)
“All men would be tyrants if they could.”
Jure divino: a satyre, Introduction, l. 2 (1706).
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.
“We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.”
The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly (1697).
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Pt. II, l. 104. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.
The Education of Women (1719)
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.
“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
