 It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered ; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words than she told it at first, the copy which came first...  The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt - Stran 73avtor: Daniel Defoe - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 226 strani
...it at fir ft; the Copy which came Jirsl to Hand, having been written in Language more like one Hill in Newgate, than one grown Penitent and Humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. The pen employ 'd in finishingher Story, andmakingit what you now see it to be, has had no little Difficulty... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 230 strani
...alter' d, particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modeSter Words than she told it at fir ft; the Copy which came firSt to Hand, having been written...Humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. The pen employ1 d infinisbingber Story, and making it what you now see it to be, has had no little Difficulty... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1989 - 484 strani
...speak of is a little alter'd, particularly she is made to tell her own Tale in modester Words than she told it at first; the Copy which came first to Hand,...having been written in Language more like one still in Newgate,2 than one grown Penitent and Humble, as she afterwards pretends3 to be. The Pen employ'd in... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 strani
...speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words than she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand...employed in finishing her story, and making it what 42. Besides Starr and Damrosch, one should consult here Robert Bell, "Metamorphoses of Spiritual Autobiography,"... | |
 | Lennard J. Davis - 1997 - 268 strani
...speak of, is a little altered, particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words than she told it at first; the copy which came first to hand,...penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. '7 Defoe goes somewhat farther here than in Colonel Jack in suggesting that Moll Flanders is not trustworthy... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1998 - 436 strani
...speak of is a little alter'd, particularly she is made to tell her own Tale in modester Words than she told it at first ; the Copy which came first to Hand,...than one grown Penitent and Humble, as she afterwards pretends2 to be. THE Pen employ'd in finishing her Story, and making it what you now see it to be,... | |
 | André Brink - 1998 - 384 strani
...supposed to be writing her own history', the Editor states, in a 'copy which first came to hand [ . . . ] written in language more like one still in Newgate...penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be' (p. 2, my emphasis). This preliminary, and already dubious, version is now offered, through the mediation... | |
 | Hal Gladfelder - 2001 - 308 strani
...speak of is a little alter'd, particularly she is made to tell her own Tale in modester Words than she told it at first; the Copy which came first to Hand,...Penitent and Humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. "This displacement of the original text, along with the editor's unwillingness, even after forty years,... | |
 | Lothar Fietz - 2005 - 260 strani
...particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words than she told it at first, the copy of which came first to hand having been written in language...penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be." »Moll Flanders«, Author's Preface, Everyman's Library. 1857 (London, 1965), 1. 13 Vg!. Clara Reeve,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 2006 - 530 strani
...speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand...employed in finishing her story, and making it what you now see it to be, has had no little difficulty to put it into a dress fit to be seen, and to make it... | |
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