The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year; Illustrated By Extracts From the Original Documents in the Burney Collection And Manuscript Room in the British Museum
The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year; Illustrated By Extracts From the Original Documents in the Burney Collection And Manuscript Room in the British Museum
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Like his contemporaries, all apparent irregularities of nature were interpreted by him as portents. Among an infinite variety of choice prodigies seen or heard in the skies, Gadbury enumerates (Natura Prodigiorum, ^* The other names and titles mentioned by Defoe on the tame page with Lilly and Gadbury may as well be disposed of here.
A book entitled "Come out of her my People" may, or may not, have existed. As everybody knows, Defoe's quotation is di- rectly from "Revelations," xviii, 4. He giv...es his source for "Yet forty days and London shall be destroyed." The original text ("Jonah," iii, 4) reads, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown." "Oh the great and dreadful God I" is at once recognised as from "Daniel," ix, 4. It has been mentioned already that "Woe to Jerusalem" and the flaming sword are from Josephus ("Works," ed. 1773, Bk. vii, ch. 12). There are any number of "Britain's Remembrancers." George With- ers gave that title to his historv of the Plague of 1625. Again, in 1644, there was published ^'England's Remembrancer, or a Warning from Heaven," etc.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Like his contemporaries, all apparent irregularities of nature were interpreted by him as portents. Among an infinite variety of choice prodigies seen or heard in the skies, Gadbury enumerates (Natura Prodigiorum, ^* The other names and titles mentioned by Defoe on the tame page with Lilly and Gadbury may as well be disposed of here.
A book entitled "Come out of her my People" may, or may not, have existed. As everybody knows, Defoe's quotation is di- rectly from "Revelations," xviii, 4. He giv...es his source for "Yet forty days and London shall be destroyed." The original text ("Jonah," iii, 4) reads, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown." "Oh the great and dreadful God I" is at once recognised as from "Daniel," ix, 4. It has been mentioned already that "Woe to Jerusalem" and the flaming sword are from Josephus ("Works," ed. 1773, Bk. vii, ch. 12). There are any number of "Britain's Remembrancers." George With- ers gave that title to his historv of the Plague of 1625. Again, in 1644, there was published ^'England's Remembrancer, or a Warning from Heaven," etc.
What to read after The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year; Illustrated By Extracts From the Original Documents in the Burney Collection And Manuscript Room in the British Museum?
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