Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... Hardinge , nay , has often heard him preach - let him make his af- fidavit , in welcome . Should he get a little wide of the mark , it will not be the first document of that nature which has possessed the same weakness . It is possible ...
... Hardinge , nay , has often heard him preach - let him make his af- fidavit , in welcome . Should he get a little wide of the mark , it will not be the first document of that nature which has possessed the same weakness . It is possible ...
Pàgina 12
... Hardinge read the funeral service over the man whom his own father had , in the same humble edi- fice , christened . Our neighbourhood has much altered of late years ; but , then , few higher than mere labourers dwelt among us , who had ...
... Hardinge read the funeral service over the man whom his own father had , in the same humble edi- fice , christened . Our neighbourhood has much altered of late years ; but , then , few higher than mere labourers dwelt among us , who had ...
Pàgina 13
... Hardinge laid her at my father's side . I was now sixteen , and can better describe what passed during the last days of her existence , than what took place at the death of her hus- band . Grace and I were apprised of what was so likely ...
... Hardinge laid her at my father's side . I was now sixteen , and can better describe what passed during the last days of her existence , than what took place at the death of her hus- band . Grace and I were apprised of what was so likely ...
Pàgina 15
... Hardinge had a free conversation with both me and Grace on the subject , when we learned , for the first time , the disposition that had been made . My father had bequeathed to me the farm , mill , landing , sloop , stock , utensils ...
... Hardinge had a free conversation with both me and Grace on the subject , when we learned , for the first time , the disposition that had been made . My father had bequeathed to me the farm , mill , landing , sloop , stock , utensils ...
Pàgina 16
... Hardinge being not quite a year older than I was myself , and Lucy , his sister , about six months younger than Grace . We were all four strongly attached to each other , and had been so from infancy , Mr. Hardinge having had charge of ...
... Hardinge being not quite a year older than I was myself , and Lucy , his sister , about six months younger than Grace . We were all four strongly attached to each other , and had been so from infancy , Mr. Hardinge having had charge of ...
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American anchor Andrew Drewett answered ascer began better boat bolt-rope Bradfort brig called canvass Captain Robbins Captain Williams cerning Clawbonny coast Compte course Crisis dear deck Digges dollars Emily everything eyes fancied father favour feeling fellow felt forecastle French gave girl give Grace guarda-costas hands Hardinge heard hope hour instant island knew lady land laugh letter-of-marque look Lucy Lucy's lugger Major Merton manner Marble Masser Mile mate matter minutes Miss Merton morning never nigger night nolle prosequi ocean passage passed pearls pounds currency pretty proas ready reef round Rupert sail sailor savages schooner seemed seen ship sister sloop Smudge soon sort stay-sail suppose taffrail Talcott tell thing thought Tigris tion told took top-mast true turned Ulster county vessel voyage Wallingford whole wind wish yawl young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 244 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Pàgina 86 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Pàgina 25 - The monarch mind, the mystery of commanding, The birth-hour gift, the art Napoleon, Of winning, fettering, moulding, wielding, banding The hearts of millions till they move as one : Thou hast it.
Pàgina 239 - Drink ! drink ! to whom shall we drink ? To a friend or a mistress ? — Come, let me think ! To those who are absent, or those who are here ? To the dead that we loved, or the living still dear ? Alas ! when I look, I find none of the last ! The present is barren — let 's drink to the past.
Pàgina 134 - With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's hair?
Pàgina 245 - How pleasant and how sad the turning tide Of human life, when side by side The child and youth begin to glide Along the vale of years : The pure twin-being for a little space, With lightsome heart, and yet a graver face, Too young for woe, though not for tears ! ALLSTON.