Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 páginas |
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Página 229
... Talcott , he was scarcely as good a seaman as myself , though he was well - educated , had good manners , was well - connected , and had been my original competitor for the office of third - mate . I had been preferred only through the ...
... Talcott , he was scarcely as good a seaman as myself , though he was well - educated , had good manners , was well - connected , and had been my original competitor for the office of third - mate . I had been preferred only through the ...
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... Talcott and myself did very well with the lunars , it is true ; but there was no chance to observe , and even lunars soon get out of their reckoning among currents and tides . Glad enough , then , was I to hear Neb sing out " Light ...
... Talcott and myself did very well with the lunars , it is true ; but there was no chance to observe , and even lunars soon get out of their reckoning among currents and tides . Glad enough , then , was I to hear Neb sing out " Light ...
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... Talcott , who had the watch , about three in the morning , came with breath- less haste into the cabin , to tell me there was a sail closing with us fast , and , so far as he could make her out in the darkness , she was lugger - rigged ...
... Talcott , who had the watch , about three in the morning , came with breath- less haste into the cabin , to tell me there was a sail closing with us fast , and , so far as he could make her out in the darkness , she was lugger - rigged ...
Página 236
... Talcott now came run- ning forward to say he thought , from some move- ments on board the lugger , that her people were now first apprised of the vicinity of the ship . I had been sadly disappointed at the call for all hands on board ...
... Talcott now came run- ning forward to say he thought , from some move- ments on board the lugger , that her people were now first apprised of the vicinity of the ship . I had been sadly disappointed at the call for all hands on board ...
Página 238
... Talcott congratulated me and applauded me ; and I believe all of us were a little too much disposed to ascribe to our own steadiness and address much that ought fairly to have been imputed to chance . Off Dover we got a pilot , and ...
... Talcott congratulated me and applauded me ; and I believe all of us were a little too much disposed to ascribe to our own steadiness and address much that ought fairly to have been imputed to chance . Off Dover we got a pilot , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 244 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 86 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 25 - The monarch mind, the mystery of commanding, The birth-hour gift, the art Napoleon, Of winning, fettering, moulding, wielding, banding The hearts of millions till they move as one : Thou hast it.
Página 239 - Drink ! drink ! to whom shall we drink ? To a friend or a mistress ? — Come, let me think ! To those who are absent, or those who are here ? To the dead that we loved, or the living still dear ? Alas ! when I look, I find none of the last ! The present is barren — let 's drink to the past.
Página 134 - With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's hair?
Página 245 - How pleasant and how sad the turning tide Of human life, when side by side The child and youth begin to glide Along the vale of years : The pure twin-being for a little space, With lightsome heart, and yet a graver face, Too young for woe, though not for tears ! ALLSTON.