The pirate. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... heard with alarm that a person of rank superior to their own , was come to reside in the ruinous tenement which they still called the castle . In those days , ( for the present times are greatly altered for the better , ) the presence ...
... heard with alarm that a person of rank superior to their own , was come to reside in the ruinous tenement which they still called the castle . In those days , ( for the present times are greatly altered for the better , ) the presence ...
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... heard in Caithness , or the nightingale that I have read of . — What will the girls do for want of their playmate Mordaunt ? " " They will shift for themselves , " answered Mertoun ; " younger or elder they will find play- mates or ...
... heard in Caithness , or the nightingale that I have read of . — What will the girls do for want of their playmate Mordaunt ? " " They will shift for themselves , " answered Mertoun ; " younger or elder they will find play- mates or ...
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... heard from the native Zetlanders . Often the scenes around him were assigned as the localities of the wild poems , which , half recited , half chaunted , by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated ...
... heard from the native Zetlanders . Often the scenes around him were assigned as the localities of the wild poems , which , half recited , half chaunted , by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated ...
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... heard to sing of subterranean wonders , or to chaunt prophesies of future events . The kraken , that hugest of living things , was still supposed to cumber the recesses of the Northern Ocean ; and often , when some fog - bank covered ...
... heard to sing of subterranean wonders , or to chaunt prophesies of future events . The kraken , that hugest of living things , was still supposed to cumber the recesses of the Northern Ocean ; and often , when some fog - bank covered ...
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... heard a tale of woe or of injustice , it was then her blood rushed to her cheeks , and shewed plainly how warm it beat , notwithstanding the generally serious , composed , and retiring disposi- tion , which her countenance and demeanour ...
... heard a tale of woe or of injustice , it was then her blood rushed to her cheeks , and shewed plainly how warm it beat , notwithstanding the generally serious , composed , and retiring disposi- tion , which her countenance and demeanour ...
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Page 50 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 180 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Page 299 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Page 279 - I do love these ancient ruins — We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history ; And, questionless, here, in this open court, (Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather,) some men lie interr'd, Loved the Church so well, and gave so largely to it, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; — but all things have their end— Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death which we have.
Page 211 - Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves ; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey ; Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.
Page 196 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 150 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our neelds, created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 119 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Page 298 - Nae langer she wept^— her tears were a' spent,— Despair it was come, and she thought it content; She thought it content, but her cheek it grew pale, And she droop'd, like a lily broke down by the hail.