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... young and old ; but with me it was far otherwise . Encumbered with my novel apparel , I experienced at once feelings of restraint and sorrow . My shoes hurt me , my worsted stockings irritated the skin ; and as I had been accustomed to ...
... young and old ; but with me it was far otherwise . Encumbered with my novel apparel , I experienced at once feelings of restraint and sorrow . My shoes hurt me , my worsted stockings irritated the skin ; and as I had been accustomed to ...
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... young man , ap- parently nineteen or twenty years of age , very small in all his proportions , red ferret eyes , and without the least sign of incipient manhood ; but he was very savage nevertheless . Not being permitted to pummel the ...
... young man , ap- parently nineteen or twenty years of age , very small in all his proportions , red ferret eyes , and without the least sign of incipient manhood ; but he was very savage nevertheless . Not being permitted to pummel the ...
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... young heart and turned that to ice , while the rest of my body was on fire . This was my last recol- lection , and then all was blank . For many days I lay unconscious of either pain or existence : when I awoke from my stupor , my ...
... young heart and turned that to ice , while the rest of my body was on fire . This was my last recol- lection , and then all was blank . For many days I lay unconscious of either pain or existence : when I awoke from my stupor , my ...
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... Young prince of the stream - lord of the lighter— ' Ratis rex et magister ' - heir apparent to the tiller - betrothed to the sweep wedded to the deck- -how art thou laid low ! Where is the blooming cheek , ruddy with the brown- ing air ...
... Young prince of the stream - lord of the lighter— ' Ratis rex et magister ' - heir apparent to the tiller - betrothed to the sweep wedded to the deck- -how art thou laid low ! Where is the blooming cheek , ruddy with the brown- ing air ...
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... young man , apparently not thirty , with a general boldness of countenance strongly contrasted with a furtive glance of the eye . He had a sort of blue smock - frock over all , and the trousers which appeared below were of a finer ...
... young man , apparently not thirty , with a general boldness of countenance strongly contrasted with a furtive glance of the eye . He had a sort of blue smock - frock over all , and the trousers which appeared below were of a finer ...
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Page 116 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 68 - No glory I covet ! no riches I want ! Ambition is nothing to me ! The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant, Is a mind independent and free.
Page 96 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Page 85 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 246 - By Jove, I am not covetous of gold : Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear : Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 256 - I to myself, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Page 122 - COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows ; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Page 245 - Away, Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate : This is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips : We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns, And pass them current, too.
Page 230 - Though he win the wise, who frown'd before, To smile at last ; He'll never meet A joy so sweet, In all his noon of fame, As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And, at every close, she blush'd to hear The one loved name.
Page 245 - 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.