Jack Tench: Or, The Midshipman Turned IdlerW. Brittain, 1841 - 262 стор. |
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... whims and her oddities , of which latter , pride of ancestry was the most ridiculous - for few ever heard of any great virtues B possessed by the Le Piques of Normandy , from whom. ( See page 7. ) Jack rescued by the dog Acptune .
... whims and her oddities , of which latter , pride of ancestry was the most ridiculous - for few ever heard of any great virtues B possessed by the Le Piques of Normandy , from whom. ( See page 7. ) Jack rescued by the dog Acptune .
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... heard of one another could not have agreed in a tale , which nothing but experience can make credible : that it is doubted by single cavillers , can very little lessen the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues ...
... heard of one another could not have agreed in a tale , which nothing but experience can make credible : that it is doubted by single cavillers , can very little lessen the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues ...
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... heard nor figure seen : I felt a strong desire to speak , to ask who was in my room , but my tongue refused its office . I was wide awake- " A thousand fantasies Began to throng into my memory , " in spite of all my philosophy , which I ...
... heard nor figure seen : I felt a strong desire to speak , to ask who was in my room , but my tongue refused its office . I was wide awake- " A thousand fantasies Began to throng into my memory , " in spite of all my philosophy , which I ...
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... heard his description of the dress worn by her Walter when he left the ship " Kentucky , " for the pilot - boat , and which tallied in every point with her daughter's description of it , her mind reluctantly admitted the power of super ...
... heard his description of the dress worn by her Walter when he left the ship " Kentucky , " for the pilot - boat , and which tallied in every point with her daughter's description of it , her mind reluctantly admitted the power of super ...
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... heard nurse's shrill " lauk , lauk , lauk , " as she approached the edge of the quay , for the " collier " was quite afloat , and had swung with the tide ; but when she saw her young tormentor not only safe and well , but in dry clothes ...
... heard nurse's shrill " lauk , lauk , lauk , " as she approached the edge of the quay , for the " collier " was quite afloat , and had swung with the tide ; but when she saw her young tormentor not only safe and well , but in dry clothes ...
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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.