Adventures of a Younger SonT. F. Unwin, 1890 - 521 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... Port Bourbon by the 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 ...
... Port Bourbon by the 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 ...
Pàgina 60
... port , I was drafted on board a guard - ship at Spithead ; and , without hearing a word from my father , was shortly re - drafted on board a sloop of war . Though young , I had pride enough to forbear useless remon- strances or whining ...
... port , I was drafted on board a guard - ship at Spithead ; and , without hearing a word from my father , was shortly re - drafted on board a sloop of war . Though young , I had pride enough to forbear useless remon- strances or whining ...
Pàgina 73
... till I confided to him my determination of leaving the ship and navy the first port we entered , counselled him to do the same , and pointed out the exquisite treat we should have in buffeting his enemy to death . The A YOUNGER SON . 73.
... till I confided to him my determination of leaving the ship and navy the first port we entered , counselled him to do the same , and pointed out the exquisite treat we should have in buffeting his enemy to death . The A YOUNGER SON . 73.
Pàgina 80
... port , and swim to her . As for the lieutenant I was to deal with him , for I had now grown tall and strong , and there were few men with whom I would have hesitated to cope . At the tavern where I took up my abode , I commenced an ...
... port , and swim to her . As for the lieutenant I was to deal with him , for I had now grown tall and strong , and there were few men with whom I would have hesitated to cope . At the tavern where I took up my abode , I commenced an ...
Pàgina 108
... port , and apparently on friendly terms there ? My next conclusion was that he was an agent of some of the Rajahs , who still were independent sovereigns , although the Company were drawing their circles within circles around them ...
... port , and apparently on friendly terms there ? My next conclusion was that he was an agent of some of the Rajahs , who still were independent sovereigns , although the Company were drawing their circles within circles around them ...
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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...