Jack Tench: Or, The Midshipman Turned IdlerW. Brittain, 1841 - 262 стор. |
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... means the former might be closed , whilst the latter remained open , " to keep the pigs out , " it was said — led to the most comfortable of all comfortable kitchens of the olden time . Over the door , was a magnificent pair of antlers ...
... means the former might be closed , whilst the latter remained open , " to keep the pigs out , " it was said — led to the most comfortable of all comfortable kitchens of the olden time . Over the door , was a magnificent pair of antlers ...
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... and bee'swax of the family , and its broad back , which was sloped ad libitum , by means of a peg , as large as a rolling pin , answered the double purposes of a rest at night for the backs of the wearied labourers , and 26 JACK TENCH .
... and bee'swax of the family , and its broad back , which was sloped ad libitum , by means of a peg , as large as a rolling pin , answered the double purposes of a rest at night for the backs of the wearied labourers , and 26 JACK TENCH .
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... means every true patriot - at length arrived ; and dinner was announced on table ' in Llantilham's , at that time , only parlour . Roast beef and boiled , roast and boiled mutton , roast and boiled veal , swimming in yellow butter ...
... means every true patriot - at length arrived ; and dinner was announced on table ' in Llantilham's , at that time , only parlour . Roast beef and boiled , roast and boiled mutton , roast and boiled veal , swimming in yellow butter ...
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... means of his own daughter , and die without shoes on ; ' but prior to such a dreadful fate , he would be very rich man , and have plenty of friends , but could only preserve his life by avoiding wool . ' Lastly , the present of three ...
... means of his own daughter , and die without shoes on ; ' but prior to such a dreadful fate , he would be very rich man , and have plenty of friends , but could only preserve his life by avoiding wool . ' Lastly , the present of three ...
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... mean these here arms , ' exclaimed he , stretching out his brawny arms ; ' 1 mean other arms , such as lions and tigers , and such things . ' Then , Billy , ' said the old lady , correcting his bad grammar , ' you should have said ...
... mean these here arms , ' exclaimed he , stretching out his brawny arms ; ' 1 mean other arms , such as lions and tigers , and such things . ' Then , Billy , ' said the old lady , correcting his bad grammar , ' you should have said ...
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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.