Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... Italy , would be an affectation of which we have no idea of being guilty . It is true - nay , it is proba- ble - that we may render the execution unequal to the design , but there can be no great harm in nobly daring , except to him who ...
... Italy , would be an affectation of which we have no idea of being guilty . It is true - nay , it is proba- ble - that we may render the execution unequal to the design , but there can be no great harm in nobly daring , except to him who ...
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... Italy , than in the Bay of Biscay and the British Channel , was the construction of the vessel in question ; a ... Italian , concerning her destination and object . This observation , with its accompanying discourse , occurred on the ...
... Italy , than in the Bay of Biscay and the British Channel , was the construction of the vessel in question ; a ... Italian , concerning her destination and object . This observation , with its accompanying discourse , occurred on the ...
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... Italian dependency , as with any other purpose . At the moment of which we are writing , however , but'a dozen living beings were visible in or about all these craft . The intelligence that a strange lugger , resembling the one ...
... Italian dependency , as with any other purpose . At the moment of which we are writing , however , but'a dozen living beings were visible in or about all these craft . The intelligence that a strange lugger , resembling the one ...
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... Italians treated their aged seaman , on this occasion ; none bawling out their questions , and all using the greatest care not to get in front of his person , lest they might intercept his means of observation . Five or six old sailors ...
... Italians treated their aged seaman , on this occasion ; none bawling out their questions , and all using the greatest care not to get in front of his person , lest they might intercept his means of observation . Five or six old sailors ...
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... Italy that has a reputation second only to that of Rome . Of course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the ...
... Italy that has a reputation second only to that of Rome . Of course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the ...
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Page 7 - 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 168 - Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 156 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 104 - He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere...