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... whole of the engagement . When the Cleopatra struck he was amongst the foremost to board . her , and walked up and down her decks as if he par- ticipated in the glory of the victory obtained by the Eng- lish . C 10 DUTCH COAST . After a ...
... whole of the engagement . When the Cleopatra struck he was amongst the foremost to board . her , and walked up and down her decks as if he par- ticipated in the glory of the victory obtained by the Eng- lish . C 10 DUTCH COAST . After a ...
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... in ships , like swarms of rats , and prey " Upon the goods all nations ships convey ; " And when their merchants are blown up and crack " Whole towns are cast away in storms and wreck ; THE DUTCH TELEGRAPH . " That feed like canibals ,
... in ships , like swarms of rats , and prey " Upon the goods all nations ships convey ; " And when their merchants are blown up and crack " Whole towns are cast away in storms and wreck ; THE DUTCH TELEGRAPH . " That feed like canibals ,
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... whole of the next day , and then dropping past the guard - ship in the evening ; during all which time we must have sat chin to knee , and have been infinitely worse ac- commodated than a cargo of African slaves . As we had a mortal ...
... whole of the next day , and then dropping past the guard - ship in the evening ; during all which time we must have sat chin to knee , and have been infinitely worse ac- commodated than a cargo of African slaves . As we had a mortal ...
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... want of the most necessary articles of cloathing ; even whole battalions were destitute of shoes and stockings , and centinels frequently did duty with no other covering than 14 ANECDOTE OF BONAPARTE . a tattered blanket , and.
... want of the most necessary articles of cloathing ; even whole battalions were destitute of shoes and stockings , and centinels frequently did duty with no other covering than 14 ANECDOTE OF BONAPARTE . a tattered blanket , and.
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... first appearance , very rudely handled by most of the reviewers , and nearly the whole of the copies lay like so much waste paper for a long time in the bookseller's shop . 62 INTERPOSITION OF PROVIDENCE . Some time afterwards , not.
... first appearance , very rudely handled by most of the reviewers , and nearly the whole of the copies lay like so much waste paper for a long time in the bookseller's shop . 62 INTERPOSITION OF PROVIDENCE . Some time afterwards , not.
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Página 185 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Página 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Página 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 110 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 75 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Página 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Página 403 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Página 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...