Adventures of a Younger SonT. F. Unwin, 1890 - 521 pàgines |
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Pàgina 54
... frigate then fitting for sea . On the following morn- ing I went on board . We went to sea in a few days , and cruised off Havre - de - Grace . The captain was intimately ac- quainted with my family . He was a red - gilled , sycophantic ...
... frigate then fitting for sea . On the following morn- ing I went on board . We went to sea in a few days , and cruised off Havre - de - Grace . The captain was intimately ac- quainted with my family . He was a red - gilled , sycophantic ...
Pàgina 63
... frigate . His appointment to her was an honour unsought ; for an honourable member of his family , in the Admiralty , scandalized at his degenerate occupations , officiously thrust greatness upon him , by ordering him on service . He ...
... frigate . His appointment to her was an honour unsought ; for an honourable member of his family , in the Admiralty , scandalized at his degenerate occupations , officiously thrust greatness upon him , by ordering him on service . He ...
Pàgina 66
... frigate fired a gun and hoisted the recal - pennant . We were then within two gun - shots of the craft ; she had got inside the reefs , and the armed natives were crowding down to the beach . On the signal - gun's being heard by our ...
... frigate fired a gun and hoisted the recal - pennant . We were then within two gun - shots of the craft ; she had got inside the reefs , and the armed natives were crowding down to the beach . On the signal - gun's being heard by our ...
Pàgina 67
... frigate , having stood in , picked us up . Two of the wounded Malays Aston took with him . After the skirmish I tried to appease Aston's anger by my coolness and activity ; so that , having lectured me , he repre- sented my conduct in ...
... frigate , having stood in , picked us up . Two of the wounded Malays Aston took with him . After the skirmish I tried to appease Aston's anger by my coolness and activity ; so that , having lectured me , he repre- sented my conduct in ...
Pàgina 76
... frigate , as they chanced to recur to my memory , not as they happened in order of time . After staying a short time at Bombay , we sailed to Madras , and then returned to the former place , with secret instructions from the admiral ...
... frigate , as they chanced to recur to my memory , not as they happened in order of time . After staying a short time at Bombay , we sailed to Madras , and then returned to the former place , with secret instructions from the admiral ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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...