Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731), journalist and novelist. His masterpiece, “Robinson Crusoe,” appeared in 1719.
dipped in dews. Cf. T. Heywood’s “Ben Jonson, though his learned pen Was dipt in Castaly, is still but Ben.”
Philoctetes. The story of the Greek hero who, on the voyage to the siege of Troy, was abandoned on an uninhabited island, is the subject of a play by Sophocles.
As I walked about. “Robinson Crusoe,” Part I, p. 125 (ed. G. A. Aitken).
[P. 270.] give an echo. “Twelfth Night,” ii, 4, 21.
[P. 271.] Our poesy. “Timon of Athens,” i, 1, 21.
[P. 272.] all plumed. Cf. 1 “Henry IV,” iv, 1, 98:
“All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bathed;
Glittering in golden coats, like images;
As full of spirits as the month of May,
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.”
If we fly. Psalms, cxxxix, 9.
[P. 275.] Pope Anastatius. “Inferno,” xi, 8.