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Daniel Defoe
(1660 - 1731)
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"Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
'Tis impudence and money makes a peer."
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), British author, poet, journalist. repr. In Works, ed. Keltie (1869). "The True-Born Englishman," pt. 1, l. 360-363 (1701).
"The royal refugee our breed restores
With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores,
And carefully repeopled us again,
Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign."
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), British author, poet, journalist. repr. In Works, ed. Keltie (1869). "The True-Born Englishman," pt. 1, l. 233-236 (1701). Referring to Charles II.
"And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst."
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731), British writer. The True-Born Englishman, pt. 2 (1701).
"Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!"
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731), British writer. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). Publication of this satire resulted in Defoe's imprisonment.
"We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake."
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), British author, poet, journalist. repr. In Works, ed. Keltie (1869). "The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly," (1697).
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