A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns1842 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 52
Page x
... light - house - The Break water - The Diving - bell- Old tars - Nelson's chase of the French , a yarn - Sir Robert Calder's action off Cape Finisterre . LETTER VI . The Dock - yard - Naval and Military Hospitals - Victualling - yard ...
... light - house - The Break water - The Diving - bell- Old tars - Nelson's chase of the French , a yarn - Sir Robert Calder's action off Cape Finisterre . LETTER VI . The Dock - yard - Naval and Military Hospitals - Victualling - yard ...
Page 24
... light air , and it is worth while setting the sky scrapers and moon - rakers : the top - gallant and steering sails are lifting , the ship has steerage way ; and there is a light wreath of foam playing round the bows : the deep blue ...
... light air , and it is worth while setting the sky scrapers and moon - rakers : the top - gallant and steering sails are lifting , the ship has steerage way ; and there is a light wreath of foam playing round the bows : the deep blue ...
Page 27
... light in every possible variety and combination . As your speed is greater than their's , whichever way they may be steering , they always seem to be meeting you , and countless thousands pass you on either side , whilst you in vain ...
... light in every possible variety and combination . As your speed is greater than their's , whichever way they may be steering , they always seem to be meeting you , and countless thousands pass you on either side , whilst you in vain ...
Page 28
... light especially in playing about the bows of the ship as she dashed along . Sometimes there would be twenty of them at a time , and a most beautiful ap- pearance they made with their black backs and sil- very bellies , with their long ...
... light especially in playing about the bows of the ship as she dashed along . Sometimes there would be twenty of them at a time , and a most beautiful ap- pearance they made with their black backs and sil- very bellies , with their long ...
Page 74
... light- ened his bosom by one huge sigh or puff , he stands , plate in hand , benignantly waiting to hand the fish , which my friend was helping , and the ugliness of which attracted my attention , more especially the immensity of the ...
... light- ened his bosom by one huge sigh or puff , he stands , plate in hand , benignantly waiting to hand the fish , which my friend was helping , and the ugliness of which attracted my attention , more especially the immensity of the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration amongst beautiful boat Breakwater breeze Brest Brixham captain cave Charles Mathews child cliff coast comfort course crew dark Dartmoor deck Devonport dinner diving bell doubt England enjoy especially evidently fact fashion favour feel feet Ferrol fishing smacks fleet French gardens give Hamoaze hand happy harbour head heart hearts of oak heerd Henry hill hope hundred interesting John Dory lady land least look Lord lovely Madeira means mind morning mother Mount Edgecombe neighbourhood never night object occasion occupied passed passengers perhaps Plymouth poor Portsmouth pretty Robert Calder rock Rosalind round Ryde sail Salcombe scene seemed ship shore side soon Spithead spot sure Teignmouth tell thee thing thought tide tion Torbay Torquay turn vessel walk waves whilst whole widow wind wine woman yard young
Popular passages
Page 105 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 15 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 127 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 106 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 214 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 246 - The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedgerow beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Page 13 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 186 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 214 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand; For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand, Flashing and cast around: of all the band, The brightest through these parted hills hath fork'd His lightnings, — as if he did understand, That in such gaps as desolation work'd, There the hot shaft should blast whatever therein lurk'd.
Page 279 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.