Adventures of a Younger SonT. F. Unwin, 1890 - 521 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... English in Decem- ber , 1810. It is therefore impossible to accept Trelawny's account of his life as described in the latter half of the " Younger Son " ; and indeed the dates he gives us are never reliable . Here and there indeed his ...
... English in Decem- ber , 1810. It is therefore impossible to accept Trelawny's account of his life as described in the latter half of the " Younger Son " ; and indeed the dates he gives us are never reliable . Here and there indeed his ...
Pàgina 13
... English prose . The spirit of adventure it raises in the reader is not easily allayed : there are those whom it has sent to sea . To those who know their Dumas it will appear only natural that a translation of the " Younger Son , " with ...
... English prose . The spirit of adventure it raises in the reader is not easily allayed : there are those whom it has sent to sea . To those who know their Dumas it will appear only natural that a translation of the " Younger Son , " with ...
Pàgina 14
Edward John Trelawny Edward Garnett. Five English editions of the " Younger Son " have been published in all , counting the present one , and the book was reprinted in New York in 1834 . Towards the close of 1831 a Dr. Millingen , who ...
Edward John Trelawny Edward Garnett. Five English editions of the " Younger Son " have been published in all , counting the present one , and the book was reprinted in New York in 1834 . Towards the close of 1831 a Dr. Millingen , who ...
Pàgina 19
... English , E. J. Trelawny . " In January , 1822 , " to quote Mary , Shelley's words , " this extravagant Trelawny - un giovane stravagante - of Herculean form , with raven black hair , overhanging brows , Moorish face , and high ...
... English , E. J. Trelawny . " In January , 1822 , " to quote Mary , Shelley's words , " this extravagant Trelawny - un giovane stravagante - of Herculean form , with raven black hair , overhanging brows , Moorish face , and high ...
Pàgina 21
... English stubbornness and ruggedness an imagination and versatility that were certainly not English . It is said that from his grandmother he inherited a Spanish strain ; and if this be so , much in his character is explained . High ...
... English stubbornness and ruggedness an imagination and versatility that were certainly not English . It is said that from his grandmother he inherited a Spanish strain ; and if this be so , much in his character is explained . High ...
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Adoo appeared Arab arms arrack Aston bamboo Batavia beautiful blood boat body Borneo breeze BYRON cabin called callian captain CHAPTER coast command corvette creese crew dark death deck Dutch English escape exclaimed eyes father fear feel fell fire followed French frigate fruit gave give grab guns hand head heard heart India instant island Isle of France Javanese jungle Kamalia KEATS killed knew land light lips live looked Louis Madagascar mahout Malay Mary Shelley Mauritius mind natives never night Odysseus passed port Port St proa Rais replied returned rocks round Ruyter sail sailors schooner Scolpvelt seemed SHELLEY shew ship shore side slaves sleep soon spirit stood straits of Sunda struck thing thought tigers told took Torra tree Trelawny turned turtle vessel voice wild wind wounded Zela Zela's
Passatges populars
Pàgina 99 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Pàgina 433 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Pàgina 56 - And from that hour did I with earnest thought Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore, Yet nothing that my tyrants knew or taught I cared to learn, but from that secret store Wrought linked armour for my soul, before It might walk forth to war among mankind...
Pàgina 371 - Bearing within his life the brooding care That ever fed on its decaying flame. And now his limbs were lean ; his scattered hair, Sered by the autumn of strange suffering, Sung dirges in the wind...
Pàgina 195 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Pàgina 341 - A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love, And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move. And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze, Each kiss a heart-quake, — for a kiss's strength, I think it must be reckon'd by its length.
Pàgina 384 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, — The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Pàgina 510 - God save the king!" and kings ! For if He don't, I doubt if men will longer— I think I hear a little bird, who sings The people by and by will be the stronger...
Pàgina 273 - Blow fair, thou breeze ! — she anchors ere the dark. Already doubled is the cape — our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously...
Pàgina 280 - No dread of death, if with us die our foes — Save that it seems even duller than repose : Come when it will— we snatch the life of life — When lost— what recks it — by disease or strife...