Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... sides teeming with the pictu- resque of human life - their heights crowned with watch- towers their rocky shelves consecrated by hermitages , and their unrivalled sheet dotted with sails , rigged , as it might be , expressly to produce ...
... sides teeming with the pictu- resque of human life - their heights crowned with watch- towers their rocky shelves consecrated by hermitages , and their unrivalled sheet dotted with sails , rigged , as it might be , expressly to produce ...
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... side , betrayed her pursuits ; and , as has been intimated , the mariners on the shore , who watched her movements , shook their heads in distrust , as they communed among themselves , in very indifferent Italian , concerning her ...
... side , betrayed her pursuits ; and , as has been intimated , the mariners on the shore , who watched her movements , shook their heads in distrust , as they communed among themselves , in very indifferent Italian , concerning her ...
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... side of which , ensconced behind a very convenient curvature of the rocks , which here incline westward in the form of a hook , lies the small port , completely concealed from the sea , as if in dread of visits like those which might be ...
... side of which , ensconced behind a very convenient curvature of the rocks , which here incline westward in the form of a hook , lies the small port , completely concealed from the sea , as if in dread of visits like those which might be ...
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... side , until a group of some two hundred men , women and children , had clustered near the person of the pilota , as the faithful gather about a favourite expounder of the law , in moments of religious excitement . It was worthy of ...
... side , until a group of some two hundred men , women and children , had clustered near the person of the pilota , as the faithful gather about a favourite expounder of the law , in moments of religious excitement . It was worthy of ...
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... side of her hull , a disposition of the canvass that gives to the felucca , and to the lugger in particular , the most picturesque of all their graceful attitudes . Unlike the narrow - headed sails that a want of hands has introduced ...
... side of her hull , a disposition of the canvass that gives to the felucca , and to the lugger in particular , the most picturesque of all their graceful attitudes . Unlike the narrow - headed sails that a want of hands has introduced ...
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Andrea answered appearance believe better boat called Captain Cuffe carry character circumstances Clinch coming commander course craft deck direction doubt duty enemy English escape expected eyes feeling felt felucca Feu-Follet fire followed French frigate Ghita girl give Griffin guns half hand head heard heart honour hope hour island Italian Italy Ithuel land less light look lugger manner matter means mind minutes moment nature necessary Nelson never night object observed occasion officer once passed person podestâ port present prisoner Proserpine question Raoul Yvard reason render returned rocks round sail seemed seen ship side Signor soon sort standing tell thing thou thought true truth turned vessel vice-governatore Vito Viti whole Winchester wind wish young
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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...