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... Night -Natural Theology- Morning salutation- " How's her head ? " —A calm — The breeze - The meeting - The shark - Portu- guese men - of - war - Porpoises - The storm - Cruel east - wind -The pilot - boat - Bread and butter - Falmouth ...
... Night -Natural Theology- Morning salutation- " How's her head ? " —A calm — The breeze - The meeting - The shark - Portu- guese men - of - war - Porpoises - The storm - Cruel east - wind -The pilot - boat - Bread and butter - Falmouth ...
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... night at the theatre- Sunday , with no pay no sermon - Church accommodation in Barbadoes . LETTER VII . Trip to Tavistock - A coasting voyage -- The Sound - The calm- " Margaret's Cove " -A Smuggler's tale- " Dirty weather " - Salcombe ...
... night at the theatre- Sunday , with no pay no sermon - Church accommodation in Barbadoes . LETTER VII . Trip to Tavistock - A coasting voyage -- The Sound - The calm- " Margaret's Cove " -A Smuggler's tale- " Dirty weather " - Salcombe ...
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... night , as a preservative against sea sickness . These and in- numerable other miseries might often be avoided by the proper use of the first half - hour on board ; a hint well worthy the attention of young voyagers . Pro- fiting by ...
... night , as a preservative against sea sickness . These and in- numerable other miseries might often be avoided by the proper use of the first half - hour on board ; a hint well worthy the attention of young voyagers . Pro- fiting by ...
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... night , and the port- manteau , without which I had no chance of effecting a comfortable lodgement in that little fort , my state- room , which seemed likely to sustain a considerable siege , so diligently was it fortified by boxes of ...
... night , and the port- manteau , without which I had no chance of effecting a comfortable lodgement in that little fort , my state- room , which seemed likely to sustain a considerable siege , so diligently was it fortified by boxes of ...
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... night as the penalty of their want of forethought . I believe I suffered as little as most ( with the exception of one or two , who did not suffer at all , ) and was able to pace the deck in confab with the captain until a late hour ...
... night as the penalty of their want of forethought . I believe I suffered as little as most ( with the exception of one or two , who did not suffer at all , ) and was able to pace the deck in confab with the captain until a late hour ...
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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.