The pirateHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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ancient answered arms ashore betwixt boat boatswain Brenda Bryce Snailsfoot Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro Cleve command crew dance dark daughters daunt devil Dick Fletcher eyes fair father favour fear fellow Fitful Head glorious John Goffe guests hand hear heard heart Heaven honest honour islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall land Lerwick look Magnus Troil maiden mair manner master mind Minna Troil Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse occasion old Norse once Orcadian Orkney pedlar pirate poor provost Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock sail scarce Scotland seemed ship shore sister sloop song speak spirit spoke stood stranger Sumburgh Head Swertha tacksman tell thee thing thou thought tide tion tone Triptolemus turn Udaller vessel voice waves weel wild wind woman word Yellowley young Zetland
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32 ページ - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
229 ページ - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
143 ページ - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
241 ページ - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
196 ページ - I learned the lute," he said, "from the same man who taught honest Shadwell — plump Tom, as they used to call him — somewhat roughly treated by the glorious John, you remember — Mordaunt, you remember — ' Methinks I see the new Arion sail, The lute still trembling underneath thy nail ; At thy well-sharpened thumb, from shore to shore, The trebles squeak for fear, the basses roar.
251 ページ - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
289 ページ - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
122 ページ - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
308 ページ - Is all the counsel that we two have shared, The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us — Oh, is all forgot ? All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
238 ページ - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...