Jack Tench: Or, The Midshipman Turned IdlerW. Brittain, 1841 - 262 стор. |
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... four years after the memorable battle of Hastings had transferred the diadem from the brow of the undaunted but unfortunate Harold , to the bastard of Normandy , whom his followers at first , and his subjects afterwards , surnamed the ...
... four years after the memorable battle of Hastings had transferred the diadem from the brow of the undaunted but unfortunate Harold , to the bastard of Normandy , whom his followers at first , and his subjects afterwards , surnamed the ...
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... four horses - the drivers , horses , and mourners all without tails ! and not having laid the blade of grass upon a certain stone coffin , which the far- mer , occupying the castle farm , had turned into a cistern , would vanish . With ...
... four horses - the drivers , horses , and mourners all without tails ! and not having laid the blade of grass upon a certain stone coffin , which the far- mer , occupying the castle farm , had turned into a cistern , would vanish . With ...
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... four . ' ' If four nurses came , well and good , —or three , or two , or one only , the place was their's , or Her's , and too good for market carriers ! —the other , that she was as good ' although ' misfortunate ' at being ' deef ' as ...
... four . ' ' If four nurses came , well and good , —or three , or two , or one only , the place was their's , or Her's , and too good for market carriers ! —the other , that she was as good ' although ' misfortunate ' at being ' deef ' as ...
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... four lines each , detailing all the various adventures of Robin Hood , which the old woman had by heart in poetry , and at her fingers end . It was lucky for Kirch that her twenty - eight mile song , as Mrs. Honor dubbed it , had ...
... four lines each , detailing all the various adventures of Robin Hood , which the old woman had by heart in poetry , and at her fingers end . It was lucky for Kirch that her twenty - eight mile song , as Mrs. Honor dubbed it , had ...
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... four teeth minus since he had eaten his dinner that day ! What was to be done ? Decimation was ordered ; and every tenth boy to beg the butcher's pardon on his knees , or be flogged . At length , the butcher himself interfered . If they ...
... four teeth minus since he had eaten his dinner that day ! What was to be done ? Decimation was ordered ; and every tenth boy to beg the butcher's pardon on his knees , or be flogged . At length , the butcher himself interfered . If they ...
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Сторінка 72 - The Sea THE sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round ; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Сторінка 8 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Сторінка 156 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Сторінка 11 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Сторінка 158 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Сторінка 234 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Сторінка 15 - The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Сторінка 210 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Сторінка 8 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Сторінка 58 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.