Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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... understand that which we have no means of studying . On the subject of the nautical incidents of this book , we have endeavoured to be as exact as our authorities will allow . We are fully aware of the importance of writing what the ...
... understand that which we have no means of studying . On the subject of the nautical incidents of this book , we have endeavoured to be as exact as our authorities will allow . We are fully aware of the importance of writing what the ...
Pàgina 38
... understand its meaning . " He is certainly to be a clergyman - his dear father's assistant , and , a long , long , very long time hence , his successor ! " I could see that Rupert was whistling on a low key , and affecting to look cool ...
... understand its meaning . " He is certainly to be a clergyman - his dear father's assistant , and , a long , long , very long time hence , his successor ! " I could see that Rupert was whistling on a low key , and affecting to look cool ...
Pàgina 39
... understand you , Miles . Certainly Mr. Hardinge ought to be told what profession you mean to follow . Remember , brother , he now fills the place of a parent to you . " " He is not more my parent than Rupert's- I fancy you will admit ...
... understand you , Miles . Certainly Mr. Hardinge ought to be told what profession you mean to follow . Remember , brother , he now fills the place of a parent to you . " " He is not more my parent than Rupert's- I fancy you will admit ...
Pàgina 55
... understand his character as thoroughly as I subsequently got to know it . All that he most prized was with him in the boat , in fact , and this lessened his grief at parting from less beloved objects . Where Rupert was , there was his ...
... understand his character as thoroughly as I subsequently got to know it . All that he most prized was with him in the boat , in fact , and this lessened his grief at parting from less beloved objects . Where Rupert was , there was his ...
Pàgina 64
... understand , some three or four vessels of that description were fitting out . This market has since used its wings to disap- pear , altogether . I kept my eyes on every ship we passed . Until the previous day , I had never seen a ...
... understand , some three or four vessels of that description were fitting out . This market has since used its wings to disap- pear , altogether . I kept my eyes on every ship we passed . Until the previous day , I had never seen a ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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.