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... betwixt the Orkney and Zetland Islands , and running with force only inferior to that of the Pentland Frith , takes its name from the headland we have mentioned , and is called the Roost of Sumburgh ; roost being the phrase assigned in ...
... betwixt the Orkney and Zetland Islands , and running with force only inferior to that of the Pentland Frith , takes its name from the headland we have mentioned , and is called the Roost of Sumburgh ; roost being the phrase assigned in ...
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... betwixt an old governante , who acted as house- keeper to Mr Mertoun , and Sweyn Erickson , as good a Zetlander as ever rowed a boat to the haaf fishing ; which dispute , as is usual in such cases , was maintained with such increasing ...
... betwixt an old governante , who acted as house- keeper to Mr Mertoun , and Sweyn Erickson , as good a Zetlander as ever rowed a boat to the haaf fishing ; which dispute , as is usual in such cases , was maintained with such increasing ...
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... betwixt the two lovely sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a fre- quent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha ...
... betwixt the two lovely sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a fre- quent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha ...
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... betwixt the two most distinguished beauties of Zetland . If they were Magnus Troil , they would soon be at the bottom of the matter ” - and so forth . All which remarks were only whis- pered , for the hasty disposition of the udaller ...
... betwixt the two most distinguished beauties of Zetland . If they were Magnus Troil , they would soon be at the bottom of the matter ” - and so forth . All which remarks were only whis- pered , for the hasty disposition of the udaller ...
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... betwixt his father and others ; and that the second corroborated the same neces- sity , since Mr Mertoun's having no other society whatever , seemed a weighty reason why his son's should be restored to him without loss of time . As to ...
... betwixt his father and others ; and that the second corroborated the same neces- sity , since Mr Mertoun's having no other society whatever , seemed a weighty reason why his son's should be restored to him without loss of time . As to ...
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The Pirate. by the Author of 'Waverley' Sir Walter Scott (bart ) Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2019 |
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amongst ancient answered arms ashore Baby better betwixt boat Boatswain Brenda Bryce Bunce Burgh Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro Cleve command crew dark daugh daughters daunt devil Dick Fletcher eyes fair father favour fear Fitful-head folks gentlemen of fortune glorious John Goffe guests hand hear heard heart Heaven honest islands jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall land Lerwick look Magnus Troil maiden mair ment mind Minna Troil Mistress Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse occasion old Norse once Orkney pedlar pirate poor Provost replied Mordaunt rock sail Saint Magnus scarce seemed shew shore sister sloop Snaelsfoot song speak spirit spoke stood stranger Swertha tell thee ther thing thou thought tion tone turn Udaller vessel voice waves weel Westra wild wind woman word young Zetland
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Сторінка 50 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Сторінка 180 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Сторінка 299 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Сторінка 279 - I do love these ancient ruins — We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history ; And, questionless, here, in this open court, (Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather,) some men lie interr'd, Loved the Church so well, and gave so largely to it, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; — but all things have their end— Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death which we have.
Сторінка 211 - Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves ; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey ; Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.
Сторінка 196 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Сторінка 150 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our neelds, created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Сторінка 119 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Сторінка 298 - Nae langer she wept^— her tears were a' spent,— Despair it was come, and she thought it content; She thought it content, but her cheek it grew pale, And she droop'd, like a lily broke down by the hail.