The island home; or, The young castaways, ed. by Christopher Romaunt, Bind 7181853 |
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Side 44
... beautiful and striking appearance , gleaming in places with a bluish lambent light , and exhibiting , where the water was most agitated , large luminous patches . Thin waves of flame curled over our bow , and whenever a sea broke upon ...
... beautiful and striking appearance , gleaming in places with a bluish lambent light , and exhibiting , where the water was most agitated , large luminous patches . Thin waves of flame curled over our bow , and whenever a sea broke upon ...
Side 48
... beautiful , but rapacious tribe . Another and another followed , their golden scales flashing in the light , as they leaped clear of the water , sometimes two or three together . We hastily made ready to attack both pursuers and pursued ...
... beautiful , but rapacious tribe . Another and another followed , their golden scales flashing in the light , as they leaped clear of the water , sometimes two or three together . We hastily made ready to attack both pursuers and pursued ...
Side 52
... beautiful beyond description . The array of clouds in the west just after sunset , their forms , arrange- ment , and colours , with the manner in which they blended and melted into one another , composed a spectacle of the magnificence ...
... beautiful beyond description . The array of clouds in the west just after sunset , their forms , arrange- ment , and colours , with the manner in which they blended and melted into one another , composed a spectacle of the magnificence ...
Side 62
... beautiful like the last . Soon after the moon rose , Max and Morton undressed , and bathed themselves in the sea . The smooth moonlit water looked so cool and inviting , that the rest of us soon followed their ex- ample ...
... beautiful like the last . Soon after the moon rose , Max and Morton undressed , and bathed themselves in the sea . The smooth moonlit water looked so cool and inviting , that the rest of us soon followed their ex- ample ...
Side 88
... beautiful vision . " What is this ! " exclaimed Browne in a voice of horror . " I should think , if I believed such things permitted , that evil spirits had power here on the lonely sea , and were sporting with our misery . " " It is a ...
... beautiful vision . " What is this ! " exclaimed Browne in a voice of horror . " I should think , if I believed such things permitted , that evil spirits had power here on the lonely sea , and were sporting with our misery . " " It is a ...
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able answered appeared Arthur attempt Barton beach beautiful became began believe boat bound Browne called Charlie chief close cloth commenced completely consider continued course cried danger dark direction distance effect Eiulo entirely escape extra eyes face fear feel feet fish followed fresh gilt gilt leaves give ground grove half hand head heard hope hour island kind land latter least leaves length light living looking manner means mind moment morning Morocco Morton natives nearly never night once ourselves party passed present probably proceeded reached remained rest Rokoa sail savages scarcely seemed seen ship shore short side sight soon sound standing stood story strange stream supposed taken thing thought trees turn voice watch wind wood young
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Side 123 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Side 32 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Side 23 - O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Side 73 - The swift volution, and the enormous train, Let sages versed in Nature's lore explain — The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling billows fly.
Side 259 - Melt into morn, and Light awakes the world. Man has another day to swell the past, And lead him near to little, but his last ; But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth, The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. Immortal man ! behold her glories shine, And cry, exulting inly,
Side 277 - With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang ; While none that saw them could divine To which side conquest would incline ; Until Magnano, who did envy...
Side 243 - Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train — Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
Side 270 - We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway. The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon.
Side 335 - With a Narrative of his most Recent Researches, including his Celebrated Journey to the Ural Mountains, Exploration of the Altaian Range, and the Caspian Sea, ic.
Side 25 - How gallantly, how merrily, We ride along the sea ! The morning is all sunshine, The wind is blowing free : The billows are all sparkling, And bounding in the light, Like creatures in whose sunny veins The blood is running bright.