The port admiral, by the author of 'Cavendish'. |
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Արդյունքներ 100–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ iv
... HEART BREAK , GO SHOW YOUR SLAVES HOW CHOLERIC YOU ARE , AND MAKE YOUR BONDSMEN TREMBLE . MUST I BUDGE - MUST I OBSERVE YOU ! MUST I STAND AND CROUCH UNDER YOUR TESTY HUMOUR ? BY THE GODS YOU SHALL DIJEST THE VENOM OF YOUR SPLEEN THOUGH ...
... HEART BREAK , GO SHOW YOUR SLAVES HOW CHOLERIC YOU ARE , AND MAKE YOUR BONDSMEN TREMBLE . MUST I BUDGE - MUST I OBSERVE YOU ! MUST I STAND AND CROUCH UNDER YOUR TESTY HUMOUR ? BY THE GODS YOU SHALL DIJEST THE VENOM OF YOUR SPLEEN THOUGH ...
Էջ vii
... heart , but in the semblance I am unable to find those finished touches of polish and breeding so winning in the original . As for Tarpaulin you cannot fail to have recog- nized the honest old rogue at a glance ; his per- son , the lady ...
... heart , but in the semblance I am unable to find those finished touches of polish and breeding so winning in the original . As for Tarpaulin you cannot fail to have recog- nized the honest old rogue at a glance ; his per- son , the lady ...
Էջ 15
... heart which endeared to him the woman with whom two years of ma- trimonial life had been passed as one continuous day of joy , -when this came rushing on his mind , together with the freezing thought that starvation . might be her lot ...
... heart which endeared to him the woman with whom two years of ma- trimonial life had been passed as one continuous day of joy , -when this came rushing on his mind , together with the freezing thought that starvation . might be her lot ...
Էջ 16
... heart - rending intelligence plough in his forehead , many a year of his life did it seem likely to eat away ; but he checked the struggling gasp , when his informant added , " though her whisht beautiful little face was still the ...
... heart - rending intelligence plough in his forehead , many a year of his life did it seem likely to eat away ; but he checked the struggling gasp , when his informant added , " though her whisht beautiful little face was still the ...
Էջ 43
... heart's fervid affections , will readily con- ceive the sensations that agitated Mrs. Somers on hearing the report of the day . Mingling with the dread of an awful death so natural to the softer sex , she felt that in risking the life ...
... heart's fervid affections , will readily con- ceive the sensations that agitated Mrs. Somers on hearing the report of the day . Mingling with the dread of an awful death so natural to the softer sex , she felt that in risking the life ...
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Admiral's appeared arms arrived beauty beheld beneath Blunderbuss boat bosom breeze cabin Captain Bombast Captain Croiser Charlotte Chatty command countenance crew dark Davy Jones dear deck delight exclaimed fear feeling fellow forecastle gale gentle give Græme Grooves guns hand head heard heart honour hour instant lads Lady Sapphira latter light lips Longbow look Lord Falconer Marengo Margarita Margiée ment mind morning Mount Edgecumbe mutineers never night Nine-fathom officer once orlop deck party passed pause poop poor Port Admiral present Puff quarter-deck Ranno Rannolini reader replied returned Richard Salisbury round sail sailor scarcely scene seamen seemed seen ship ship's side Sir Richard sister smile soul spirit stood stranger sure taffrail Tarpaulin tell thee there's thing thou thought tion turned vessel voice walk waves wind young younker
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Էջ 273 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 59 - When youthful Love, warm-blu.shing strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame "I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way. Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.
Էջ 63 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Էջ 88 - There was in him a vital scorn of all : As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled...
Էջ 245 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Էջ 240 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Էջ 231 - Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, the pageant of a day ; So perish all whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others
Էջ 67 - Thy throne had still been thine, or never been; For daring made thy rise as fall : thou seek'st Even now to re-assume the imperial mien, And shake again the world, the thunderer of the scene!
Էջ 88 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain...
Էջ 275 - tis thine to cleanse his heart From every gross, unholy part ; Thine, in domestic solitude, To win him to be wise and good ; His pattern, guide, and friend, to be, To give him back the heaven he forfeited for thee.