The port admiral, by the author of 'Cavendish'. |
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... Reader , you have been in India ? If so , you have only to recall to your mind's eye the beautiful view presented by the harbour of Bombay on a fine day , and you will at once be present at the spot whence this our history first takes ...
... Reader , you have been in India ? If so , you have only to recall to your mind's eye the beautiful view presented by the harbour of Bombay on a fine day , and you will at once be present at the spot whence this our history first takes ...
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... Reader , the dull monotony of your life has not yet been broken by the charming variety of being stung to madness by mosquitos , notwithstanding that your gauze curtains have been most carefully fanned and closed ever since four o'clock ...
... Reader , the dull monotony of your life has not yet been broken by the charming variety of being stung to madness by mosquitos , notwithstanding that your gauze curtains have been most carefully fanned and closed ever since four o'clock ...
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... reader , —and to whom I shall forbear giving any name , for reasons of mine own , -matters little , but so long had he trained his features to their wonted cast of ex- pression , that now , when the fire of youth began to subside , they ...
... reader , —and to whom I shall forbear giving any name , for reasons of mine own , -matters little , but so long had he trained his features to their wonted cast of ex- pression , that now , when the fire of youth began to subside , they ...
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... reader will shortly learn . Through that one inhuman act , though sanctioned by the law of the land , how much of misery was caused , -of blood was shed , -and crime committed ! In Græme's education there had been an error , — error it ...
... reader will shortly learn . Through that one inhuman act , though sanctioned by the law of the land , how much of misery was caused , -of blood was shed , -and crime committed ! In Græme's education there had been an error , — error it ...
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... reader will readily comprehend that Græme was a dangerous character . He had long nursed the black spot within his breast , and many a bitter indignity did discipline heap upon it , as fuel to fire . Caution led him so far to temper his ...
... reader will readily comprehend that Græme was a dangerous character . He had long nursed the black spot within his breast , and many a bitter indignity did discipline heap upon it , as fuel to fire . Caution led him so far to temper his ...
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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.