The Atlantic Club-book: Being Sketches in Prose and Verse, Band 2Harper and brothers, 1834 |
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... sail with a commander who allowed no opportunity to pass of proving his title to the nautical distinction he enjoyed , of being " the hardest horse in the navy . " But those days were over now ; and the more elevated rank , and more ...
... sail with a commander who allowed no opportunity to pass of proving his title to the nautical distinction he enjoyed , of being " the hardest horse in the navy . " But those days were over now ; and the more elevated rank , and more ...
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... sail , and make a short cruise of it , till we get back to our starting point . There is no time now for buckling knee - buckles , as the boatswain's mate says , when he calls all hands in a squall at night ; so , to make a short story ...
... sail , and make a short cruise of it , till we get back to our starting point . There is no time now for buckling knee - buckles , as the boatswain's mate says , when he calls all hands in a squall at night ; so , to make a short story ...
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... sail , and that dis- tance , in all human probability , would put an end to this unworthy attachment , as it had made him forgetful of the ties of honorable love . We soon executed the duty we were sent upon , and returned to the ship ...
... sail , and that dis- tance , in all human probability , would put an end to this unworthy attachment , as it had made him forgetful of the ties of honorable love . We soon executed the duty we were sent upon , and returned to the ship ...
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... sail of such extent that it might have furnished a main - course for a frigate of the largest class . The motions of this vessel had in truth some- thing in them well calculated to attract attention . At one time , with her yards braced ...
... sail of such extent that it might have furnished a main - course for a frigate of the largest class . The motions of this vessel had in truth some- thing in them well calculated to attract attention . At one time , with her yards braced ...
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... sail ho ! " from aloft first broke the silence . It was not necessary to follow this announcement with the usual ... sail and working ship . Though the wind whistled wildly through the cordage , a ring- tail was added to the mainsail ...
... sail ho ! " from aloft first broke the silence . It was not necessary to follow this announcement with the usual ... sail and working ship . Though the wind whistled wildly through the cordage , a ring- tail was added to the mainsail ...
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afore aint beauty beneath boat bosom breath breeze brig brigantine brow Charles choly clouds cried dark deck devil door dream Duck Dunlavin Evans eyes fair fancy fear feel Fifa Fish FITZ-GREENE HALLECK forecastle gaze give glance Gracy hand head heart heaven honor horse hour Johnny Johnny Evans Julia Julia Smith laugh legs light lips look Mat Dolan melan ment mind morning Napoleon Bonaparte nature never New-York night o'er ocean once passed Peter Crane poet poor portmanteaus Pot Pie Palmer Potts quadrupeds R-ds racter replied rest roar round sail SAMUEL WOODWORTH scene schooner ship sleep smile soon spirit spring stood summer supercargo sure sweet thee thing thou thought Tibbs tion turn TYRONE POWER vessel voice walk watch wild WILLIAM COX WILLIAM LEGGETT wind wonder yankee young
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Seite 229 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Seite 96 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 233 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Seite 249 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Seite 196 - Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near, Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear, And who felt how the best charms of nature improve, When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Seite 244 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, — They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.
Seite 66 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain, Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross,
Seite 238 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Seite 221 - This darling flower, this early child of spring, " that comes before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty,
Seite 61 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.