Sublime

But I was hurried on, and obey’d blindly the dictates of my fancy rather than my reason;

But I that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the offer than I could restrain my first rambling designs,

Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, was stranded from September 1704 to 2 February 1709 on one of the Juan Fernández islands off the coast of Chile.

Sadiq Khan.

not embarass’d with the labours of the hands or of the head,

These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm continued, and indeed some time after;