Explanation:
For sudden joys, like grief's, confound at first.
Answer: This line has been extracted from Chapter 5 of the famous fictional travelogue Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe. The line expresses Crusoe's reaction after his survival and safe landing on the island.
On his third voyage along with his fellow planters to the coast of Guinea, Crusoe's ship faced a terrible shipwreck and Crusoe was the only alive member among the eleven who landed on board a boat to save themselves from the fury of the storm. After a lot of toil and moil, Crusoe could manage to reach the shove though there was every chance of being swallowed up by the huge sea waves. Now, the fact of survival was, to Crusoe, a sort of pleasing pain. He is really confounded and wonder-struck that he is the only living creature on the island. He feels happy because God has saved his life and given him a safe landing on the island. Simultaneously, he is aggrieved and sorry that no other mate of his is alive to accompany him. He raises his hands to thank God that he has saved him out of the very grave. That is why he feels a sort of ecstasy. At the same time, he is wrapped up in the confusion that though he has a "dreadful deliverance" he is the lone survivor with no food, no clothes, no shelter, and no one to console his plight.
Thus the line represents the true state of Crusoe's mind. His ambivalent feeling of joy and grief about his survival is juxtaposed.
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