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Side 15
... vessel was engaged to be built at Battersea , by the renowned Johnson the smuggler , for the purpose of liberating Buonaparte from the island of St. Helena . The vessel was about 90 feet long , and of the burden of 100 tons . It was ...
... vessel was engaged to be built at Battersea , by the renowned Johnson the smuggler , for the purpose of liberating Buonaparte from the island of St. Helena . The vessel was about 90 feet long , and of the burden of 100 tons . It was ...
Side 49
... vessel for a foreign country , and after months of anxiety to its owner , the noble craft returns from a prosperous voyage : then does the man of business shake his head , and regret the loss of the insurance he paid at Lloyd's . The ...
... vessel for a foreign country , and after months of anxiety to its owner , the noble craft returns from a prosperous voyage : then does the man of business shake his head , and regret the loss of the insurance he paid at Lloyd's . The ...
Side 51
... vessel , for when he presented himself at his fa- ther's house three years afterwards , he was dressed in the tattered garb of a sailor . An attempt was made to reclaim him ; and his mother , whose health had been declining ...
... vessel , for when he presented himself at his fa- ther's house three years afterwards , he was dressed in the tattered garb of a sailor . An attempt was made to reclaim him ; and his mother , whose health had been declining ...
Side 79
... vessel , when all the other anchors were lost in the midst of the coral rocks of the Sandwich Isles - That mast was broken by a hur- ricane off the Cape of Good Hope ; it was but one single piece , but it is much stronger now that it is ...
... vessel , when all the other anchors were lost in the midst of the coral rocks of the Sandwich Isles - That mast was broken by a hur- ricane off the Cape of Good Hope ; it was but one single piece , but it is much stronger now that it is ...
Side 80
... vessel is itself a spectacle . Sensible to the slightest movement of the helm , an hip- pogriff or winged courser , it obeys the hand of the pilot , as a horse the hand of its rider . The elegance of the masts and cordages , the agility ...
... vessel is itself a spectacle . Sensible to the slightest movement of the helm , an hip- pogriff or winged courser , it obeys the hand of the pilot , as a horse the hand of its rider . The elegance of the masts and cordages , the agility ...
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Side 396 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Side 293 - I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider -to the Fly. " There are pretty curtains drawn around ; the sheets are fine and thin, And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!
Side 293 - At last, Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast. He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den Within his little parlor — but she ne'er came out again! And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counsellor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.
Side 293 - Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with the pearl and silver wing; Your robes are green and purple, there's a crest upon your head; Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead...
Side 46 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Side 295 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride*< Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Side 286 - ... had swallowed them. The horrid noise of their closing jaws, their plunging amidst the broken banks of fish, and rising with their prey some feet upright above the water, the floods of water and blood rushing out of their mouths, and the clouds of vapour issuing from their wide nostrils, were truly frightful. This scene continued at intervals during the night, as the fish came to the pass.
Side 269 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.
Side 46 - There is a man, whose moral character, deep learning, and superior parts, I acknowledge, admire, and respect ; but whom it is so impossible for me to love, that I am almost in a fever whenever I am in his company. His figure (without being deformed) seems made to disgrace or ridicule the common structure of the human body. Hij legs and arms are never in the position which, according...
Side 388 - ... down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...