The Flying Dutchman: A Legend of the High SeasCarey & Hart, 1840 |
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Side 55
... happiness are wasted , such a lamentable ignorance prevails as to the extent to which tyranny is carried on in the service , that it will take the lapse of long years to convince them of the truth , and , what perhaps should be more ...
... happiness are wasted , such a lamentable ignorance prevails as to the extent to which tyranny is carried on in the service , that it will take the lapse of long years to convince them of the truth , and , what perhaps should be more ...
Side 143
... happiness , and months of such deep misery - was fading from him like the glorious but pale vision of ambition from the untimely death - bed of youth . Still he watched her sails , till , grow- ing into a speck , sight could no longer ...
... happiness , and months of such deep misery - was fading from him like the glorious but pale vision of ambition from the untimely death - bed of youth . Still he watched her sails , till , grow- ing into a speck , sight could no longer ...
Side 146
... happier of mankind it is easily answered : -a tinder - box , a pistol , some ball- cartridge , and a tomahawk or small kind of hatchet ; to this had been added a bottle of rum , which , valuing as a medicine beyond all praise in case of ...
... happier of mankind it is easily answered : -a tinder - box , a pistol , some ball- cartridge , and a tomahawk or small kind of hatchet ; to this had been added a bottle of rum , which , valuing as a medicine beyond all praise in case of ...
Side 167
... happiness does this solitary life pro- mise , than the horrid one from which my tyrant turned me , as he intended , so revengefully ! I have no books- alas ! too true ; but it will be my own fault if I now want employment ; and I thank ...
... happiness does this solitary life pro- mise , than the horrid one from which my tyrant turned me , as he intended , so revengefully ! I have no books- alas ! too true ; but it will be my own fault if I now want employment ; and I thank ...
Side 176
... happiness of seeing life gradually return . The first sign of this was a faint though involuntary attempt made to swallow ; and then , from a state so near the grave that the boundary line was not to be distinguished , pulsation began ...
... happiness of seeing life gradually return . The first sign of this was a faint though involuntary attempt made to swallow ; and then , from a state so near the grave that the boundary line was not to be distinguished , pulsation began ...
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Alcibiades Angela appeared arms beheld boat boatswain boatswain's mate bosom brig cabin Captain Livingstone CHAPTER command corporal corporal's court-martial Cresswell crew cried danger daring dark death deck deep dread duty eyes fate father fear feeling fellow fire Flying Dutch Flying Dutchman forecastle frigate gale give gunroom guns hand happiness head heard heart Heaven Herbert Holdout hope horror hour island knew larboard leeward lieutenant lips looked maindeck marine marriage master master-at-arms midshipmen mind minutes morning Mustapha mutineers never night officers once passed prisoner quarter-deck Ramsay Ramsay's reefs remained replied returned round sail scarcely seamen seemed seen sentry ship ship's shipmates shore shot sight Sneak soon sound stood sudden suddenly surgeon thought tion topman topsails turned utmost utter voice watch wave wind windward word wounded yardarm
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Side 59 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — oh my daughter...
Side 157 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave...
Side 27 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Side 67 - Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't.
Side 127 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Side 145 - BOOK IS NOT RETURNED TO THE I.IBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE I.AST DATE STAMPED BEI.OW. NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE NOTICES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES.
Side 26 - ... his name, A little playful thing was she ; How proud we were, — yet that night came The tale how he had sunk at sea. My mother never raised her head ; How strange, how white, how cold she grew ! It was a broken heart they said — I wish our hearts were broken too. We have no home — we have no friends, They said our home no more was ours ; Our cottage where the ash-tree bends, The garden we had filled with flowers.
Side 17 - Acre he remained, happily for him, insensible until the fbflowing morning. Even the rude hearts of those now bent over him, accustomed as they were to scenes of tyranny and oppression, could not subdue the emotions of pity and remorse that arose within them, as they beheld the condition of a gentleman to whom, but a short time since, every one looked up with respect. " A sad business !" muttered the sergeant, as he bent over Ramsay's body, and threw the light of his lantern in his face.