Jack ashore, by the author of 'Rattlin the reefer' &c1840 |
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Page 195 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Page 84 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily course of duty run •> Shake off dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 Redeem thy mispent time that's past; Live this day, as if 'twere thy last: T ' improve thy talents take due care;.
Page 128 - But she, whose eyes had hitherto been fixed upon the ground, now raised them to his suddenly. " Well, possible or no," he continued to himself, "it is no business of mine. Every one has a right to do what he likes with his own.
Page 188 - Jesus, I am willing to let Thee into my heart. Do not refuse to come because I have not been so good as I ought to have been. Come now and make me good." And still he did not find that Jesus had come in. He was weak and faint, and almost dead with sorrow. He could not rest, nor eat, all that day. " Take some dinner, James,
Page v - THE COURTIER'S DAUGHTER, By LADY STEPNEY. 3 vols. post 8vo. "A charmingspecimen of Lady Stepney's powers in the world of fiction. Her ' Courtier's Daughter 'mingles enough of romance with...
Page 37 - ... excepting the lion, were again in a state of pristine youth and beauty, the ugly old man with the urn particularly. Then came Sculpture's sister art, Painting, to crown the whole. " To the life, the very life," was the captain's continual cry.
Page 34 - Hecuba, she sometimes wore a dishclout over her diadem. When Jack was merry, he would clap a pipe into any of the immortal mouths that happened to be nearest, and the prongs of Old Ocean's trident offered a very convenient means to plat sinnc-t by.
Page 37 - ... body-guard, but to prevent the least indignity being offered to them, either by day or by night. The next thing done, was the immediate repair of the greater dilapidations; and when all the skill that he could command on board was exhausted, the fiery skipper went to Portsmouth and engaged...
Page v - Gavel figures, are from the first to the last exceedingly powerful. Yet these are equalled by the subsequent scenes in the Santa Anna, where we have a quick succession of all that is most breath-suspending, awful, and appalling. The work is one of great...
Page 19 - Trestlctree, the good lady his wife, had but half so quiet a tongue in her head as the worst of them, all he could say was, that perhaps he might not be so anxious to go foreign. The little boys...