The Jack O'Lantern; or, The privateer, Volume 1 |
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66 Signor Americano amici miei anchor Andrea Barrofaldi answered Raoul appearance batteries Benedetta boats breeze canvass Captain Cuffe carronades character commander craft deck distrust Divina Providenza doubt eccellenza Elba Elbans enemy English ensign Etooell eyes felucca Feu-Follet Filippo fire flask French French ensign frigate Genoese Ghita girl Griffin Guernsey guns hauled honour hour Il Capitano Inghilterra Inglese island Italian Ithuel Bolt Le Feu-Follet light Livorno look lugger manner mariners Maso matter Mediterranean minutes morning nation never observed occasion passed port Porto Ferrajo promontory Proserpine Raoul Yvard religion render republican sail seamen seen ship shore shot Signor Capitano Signor Podestà Signor Smees Signor Vice-governatore Sir Brown Sir Smees Smeet smile soon sort stood stranger tell thing thou thought tion Tommaso Tonti town true truth Tuscan vessel vice-governor Ving-and-Ving Ving-y-Ving Vito Viti Winchester wind wine Wing-and-Wing word
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Page 3 - 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.