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    The Storm. An Essay.
    The Storm. An Essay.
    The Storm. An Essay.
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    The Storm. An Essay.

    By Daniel Defoe

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Storm. An Essay.
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    Daniel Defoe

    English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England’s first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.

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      Title: The Storm.

             An Essay.

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: October 14, 2012 [EBook #41063]

      Language: English

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      THE STORM.

      AN ESSAY.

      1704 title: An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born-English-Man.

      With an essay on the late storm.

      By the author of the Hymn to the Pillory.

      THE STORM. AN ESSAY.

      I'm told, for we have News among the Dead,

      Heaven lately spoke, but few knew what it said;

      The Voice, in loudest Tempests spoke,

      And Storms, which Nature's strong Foundation shook.

      I felt it hither, and I'd have you know

      I heard the Voice, and knew the Language too.

      Think it not strange I heard it here,

      No Place is so remote, but when he speaks, they hear.

      Besides, tho' I am dead in Fame,

      I never told you where I am.10

      Tho' I have lost Poetick Breath,

      I'm not in perfect State of Death:

      From whence this Popish Consequence I draw,

      I'm in the Limbus of the Law.

      Let me be where I will I heard the Storm,

      From every Blast it eccho'd thus, REFORM;

      I felt the mighty Shock, and saw the Night,

      When Guilt look'd pale, and own'd the Fright;

      And every Time

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