Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 1
... father had been a sailor in youth , and some of my earliest recollections are con- nected with the history of his adventures , and the recollections they excited . He had been a boy in the war of the revolution , and had seen some ...
... father had been a sailor in youth , and some of my earliest recollections are con- nected with the history of his adventures , and the recollections they excited . He had been a boy in the war of the revolution , and had seen some ...
Pàgina 2
... father's death , always spoke of even this scar as a beauty - spot . Agreeably to my own recollections , the mark scarcely deserved that commendation , as it gave one side of the face a grim and fierce appear- ance , particularly when ...
... father's death , always spoke of even this scar as a beauty - spot . Agreeably to my own recollections , the mark scarcely deserved that commendation , as it gave one side of the face a grim and fierce appear- ance , particularly when ...
Pàgina 4
... father had managed to bring with him from sea some fourteen or fif- teen thousand dollars , which he carefully in- vested in mortgages in the county . He got twenty - seven hundred pounds currency with my mother , similarly bestowed ...
... father had managed to bring with him from sea some fourteen or fif- teen thousand dollars , which he carefully in- vested in mortgages in the county . He got twenty - seven hundred pounds currency with my mother , similarly bestowed ...
Pàgina 5
... father's Madeira , I do not wish to boast of being classed with those who then com- posed the gentry of the State . To this , in that day , we could hardly aspire , though the sub- stantial hereditary property of my family gave us a ...
... father's Madeira , I do not wish to boast of being classed with those who then com- posed the gentry of the State . To this , in that day , we could hardly aspire , though the sub- stantial hereditary property of my family gave us a ...
Pàgina 6
... father's face was so par- ticularly becoming . The battle was fought in June 1780 , and my parents were married in the autumn of the same year . My father did not go to sea again until after my birth , which took place the very day that ...
... father's face was so par- ticularly becoming . The battle was fought in June 1780 , and my parents were married in the autumn of the same year . My father did not go to sea again until after my birth , which took place the very day that ...
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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.