The night watch; or, Tales of the sea, Band 1Henry Colburn, 1828 |
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... establish- ment , to be sure , was on a good scale , but how could a respectable establishment dissipate the immense fortune his father left him ? He was not known at Brooks's or White's , nor did he THE CAPTAIN . 17.
... establish- ment , to be sure , was on a good scale , but how could a respectable establishment dissipate the immense fortune his father left him ? He was not known at Brooks's or White's , nor did he THE CAPTAIN . 17.
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... father and tutor , in whose society their time was generally spent . A strict principle of obedience was exacted , and a command was not to be repeated . All their toys had some useful tendency , as it was considered that play might be ...
... father and tutor , in whose society their time was generally spent . A strict principle of obedience was exacted , and a command was not to be repeated . All their toys had some useful tendency , as it was considered that play might be ...
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... father preferred their minds being stored with solid information to elegant accomplishments . Mr. Dunstanville considered , that as man was not intended to be a wild animal , the sooner the reins were put upon every thing that tended to ...
... father preferred their minds being stored with solid information to elegant accomplishments . Mr. Dunstanville considered , that as man was not intended to be a wild animal , the sooner the reins were put upon every thing that tended to ...
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... father's museum , or drawings in their books . Their real names were then ascertained , and no others allowed to be used ; while their pecu- liarities being explained , ideal properties of every kind were rejected . When they had been ...
... father's museum , or drawings in their books . Their real names were then ascertained , and no others allowed to be used ; while their pecu- liarities being explained , ideal properties of every kind were rejected . When they had been ...
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... father and tutor , in whose society their time . was generally spent . A strict principle of obedience was exacted , and a command was not to be repeated . All their toys had some useful tendency , as it was considered that play might ...
... father and tutor , in whose society their time . was generally spent . A strict principle of obedience was exacted , and a command was not to be repeated . All their toys had some useful tendency , as it was considered that play might ...
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Seite 125 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere...
Seite 109 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Seite 103 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Seite 103 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Seite xxxv - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Seite 103 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Seite 42 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Seite 12 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Seite xv - As the Chameleon, who is known To have no colors of his own : But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue...
Seite 139 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they...