The night watch; or, Tales of the sea, Bind 1Henry Colburn, 1828 |
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... navy had been wrecked but a few years before , and where so many hundreds of English seamen had found a watery grave , or only escaped the waves to lie buried on the sandy , arid shore . The time of sunrise had been earnestly looked for ...
... navy had been wrecked but a few years before , and where so many hundreds of English seamen had found a watery grave , or only escaped the waves to lie buried on the sandy , arid shore . The time of sunrise had been earnestly looked for ...
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... navy could not be manned without keeping up the number of our merchant ships - wore a coat of Saxony wool , smoked Havan- nah cigars , and thought cayenne and caviare an exquisite relish . He was what is called a jolly fellow : gave ...
... navy could not be manned without keeping up the number of our merchant ships - wore a coat of Saxony wool , smoked Havan- nah cigars , and thought cayenne and caviare an exquisite relish . He was what is called a jolly fellow : gave ...
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... navy could not be manned without keeping up the number of our merchant ships -wore a coat of Saxony wool , smoked Havan- nah cigars , and thought cayenne and caviare an exquisite relish . He was what is called a jolly fellow : gave good ...
... navy could not be manned without keeping up the number of our merchant ships -wore a coat of Saxony wool , smoked Havan- nah cigars , and thought cayenne and caviare an exquisite relish . He was what is called a jolly fellow : gave good ...
Side 45
... his head , to the great delight of his young rider . Morland had , for the last twelve months , been destined for the Navy , and his education directed to the minor branches of mathematics and nautical astronomy THE CAPTAIN . 45.
... his head , to the great delight of his young rider . Morland had , for the last twelve months , been destined for the Navy , and his education directed to the minor branches of mathematics and nautical astronomy THE CAPTAIN . 45.
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... navy to leave their homes , at the age of thirteen , -a period of life at which most boys are glad to escape from Latin and Greek , to visit countries they have heard or read of , little dreaming that in some of his Majesty's ships they ...
... navy to leave their homes , at the age of thirteen , -a period of life at which most boys are glad to escape from Latin and Greek , to visit countries they have heard or read of , little dreaming that in some of his Majesty's ships they ...
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Side 125 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere...
Side 109 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Side 103 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Side 103 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Side xxxv - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Side 103 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Side 42 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Side 12 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Side xv - As the Chameleon, who is known To have no colors of his own : But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue...
Side 139 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they...