Adventures of a Younger SonT. F. Unwin, 1890 - 521 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... schooner , having brought it into the Batavia roads with us . . . . It was in 1811 I am speaking of . " Now the Younger Son is made to sail for Europe some months before the taking of Port Bourbon by the English in Decem- ber , 1810. It ...
... schooner , having brought it into the Batavia roads with us . . . . It was in 1811 I am speaking of . " Now the Younger Son is made to sail for Europe some months before the taking of Port Bourbon by the English in Decem- ber , 1810. It ...
Pàgina 44
... schooner off Trafalgar , carrying the first despatches of the battle and death of its hero . We had chased her many hours out of our course , and but that our ship sailed well , and the wind was fresh , we should not have brought her to ...
... schooner off Trafalgar , carrying the first despatches of the battle and death of its hero . We had chased her many hours out of our course , and but that our ship sailed well , and the wind was fresh , we should not have brought her to ...
Pàgina 45
... schooner's having disobeyed his signal , until she was compelled . After a few minutes , swelling with wrath , he sent an order to Keates ; who , possibly heard it not , but staggered along the deck , struck to the heart by the news ...
... schooner's having disobeyed his signal , until she was compelled . After a few minutes , swelling with wrath , he sent an order to Keates ; who , possibly heard it not , but staggered along the deck , struck to the heart by the news ...
Pàgina 111
... schooner . Her bow is of the leanest , and her beam being so far aft , I doubt she pitches damnably in a swell . Nevertheless there is a varment and knowing look about her which I like . " " Well , will you run her down the coast to Goa ...
... schooner . Her bow is of the leanest , and her beam being so far aft , I doubt she pitches damnably in a swell . Nevertheless there is a varment and knowing look about her which I like . " " Well , will you run her down the coast to Goa ...
Pàgina 171
... schooner , having plundered a village of sheep and poultry , and beaten the inhabitants , was pursued by the Maratti in their war - canoes , boarded , taken , and , ere the French had time to cut the throats of the sheep , they them ...
... schooner , having plundered a village of sheep and poultry , and beaten the inhabitants , was pursued by the Maratti in their war - canoes , boarded , taken , and , ere the French had time to cut the throats of the sheep , they them ...
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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...