Tom Cringle's LogGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1835 - 432 pages |
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... shot prevail'd , And aye as if for death some lonely trumpet wail'd . " GERTRUDE OF WYOMING . DAZZLED by the glones of Trafalgar , I , Thomas Cringle , one fine morn- ing in the merry month of May , in the year one thousand eight ...
... shot prevail'd , And aye as if for death some lonely trumpet wail'd . " GERTRUDE OF WYOMING . DAZZLED by the glones of Trafalgar , I , Thomas Cringle , one fine morn- ing in the merry month of May , in the year one thousand eight ...
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... shot , through which , however , I could distinctly hear a heavy smash , as the large and ponderous blocks at the clew of the sail struck the doomed sailor under the ear , and whirled him off the booms over the fore - yard - arm into ...
... shot , through which , however , I could distinctly hear a heavy smash , as the large and ponderous blocks at the clew of the sail struck the doomed sailor under the ear , and whirled him off the booms over the fore - yard - arm into ...
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... shot past them in the fog , while we could scarcely see the vessels at all . The morning after this particular time to which I allude , was darker than any which had gone before it ; absolutely you could not see the breadth of the ship ...
... shot past them in the fog , while we could scarcely see the vessels at all . The morning after this particular time to which I allude , was darker than any which had gone before it ; absolutely you could not see the breadth of the ship ...
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... shot that had been fired at us from a long 32 pound gun , took effect right abaft the fore mast , and killed three men outright and wounded two . Several other shots followed , but with less sure aim . Returning the fire was of no use ...
... shot that had been fired at us from a long 32 pound gun , took effect right abaft the fore mast , and killed three men outright and wounded two . Several other shots followed , but with less sure aim . Returning the fire was of no use ...
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... shots were now fired , that hissed , ricochetting along the water close by us . Not a word was spoken in the boat all this ... shot overhead . " They cannot be firing at us , sir , " said the coxswain ; " none of them bullets are telling ...
... shots were now fired , that hissed , ricochetting along the water close by us . Not a word was spoken in the boat all this ... shot overhead . " They cannot be firing at us , sir , " said the coxswain ; " none of them bullets are telling ...
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Page 25 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 312 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 290 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 225 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure...
Page 296 - 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...
Page 350 - t be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. Sir, in this audience, Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.
Page 231 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 173 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 190 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 296 - Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth you might, (I ween) Have guessed some congregation of the elves To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves...