Comments on the writing styles of Daniel Defoe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Milton. Transcription: for children ? even to the boat incident.) Love and honor to thy name [Daniel] Defoe ? thou hast left a legacy of pleasure and thoughtfulness to ages yet unborn. What a truthful, homely narration of mind and incident is it; and how English is [Robinson] Crusoe in everything. The style of the narrative is immutable, as is the story. Nor is Defoe seduced, (as his imitators have been) into painting Solitude in too bright colors ? yet what an intensely attractive book is it, ever. How well Defoe d

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Comments on the writing styles of Daniel Defoe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Milton. Transcription: for children ? even to the boat incident.) Love and honor to thy name [Daniel] Defoe ? thou hast left a legacy of pleasure and thoughtfulness to ages yet unborn. What a truthful, homely narration of mind and incident is it; and how English is [Robinson] Crusoe in everything. The style of the narrative is immutable, as is the story. Nor is Defoe seduced, (as his imitators have been) into painting Solitude in too bright colors ? yet what an intensely attractive book is it, ever. How well Defoe describes character, ? an English sailor to wit ? to the life. ?ǣThe Englishman replied, like a true rough-hewn tarpaulin ?ǣthey might starve and be damn ?d ? they should not plant or build in that place. ? / The religious part of Crusoe is given with unstudied power, ? nor would the book be, as it is, a Complete one, without it. And the gravity and loneliness of the style is to my thinking more manly, more English and expressive, that the pert, auctioneer ?s clip-word dialect in use both on type and tongue now-a-days. Verily old [Geoffrey] Chaucer ?s, simple, and deliberate dialect is ten-times preferable. We can ?t think excepting in exaggerated short-hand. Read a line of [John] Milton ? the most commonplace one to be found, and is not the very utterance of it musical. / This morning, as I sat in my room, door half open, I heard Mrs. [Mary] Holt, the landlady scolding some unhappy female boarder below. It was done with all violence and coarse opprobrium ? possibly-lack of Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 88, February 13, 1850 . 13 February 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903