DECK AND PORT; OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA |
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... dead calm follow each other with the fickleness of an un- weaned child over its toys . And proud man submits , as well he may ; for he cannot help it . We are al- ways reconciled to that which is remediless . Even death seems to lose ...
... dead calm follow each other with the fickleness of an un- weaned child over its toys . And proud man submits , as well he may ; for he cannot help it . We are al- ways reconciled to that which is remediless . Even death seems to lose ...
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... dead calm is the air it af fords . As for progress , we might as well be “ A painted ship upon a painted ocean . ” How dependent is a ship on the elements ! Let the winds refuse to visit us , and this noble frigate would never move from ...
... dead calm is the air it af fords . As for progress , we might as well be “ A painted ship upon a painted ocean . ” How dependent is a ship on the elements ! Let the winds refuse to visit us , and this noble frigate would never move from ...
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... dead yet shall he live ; and whosoever believeth in me shall never die . " When the solemn sentence was uttered ... calm of your hushed chamber ; but the poor sailor dies at sea between the narrow decks of his rolling vessel . The last ...
... dead yet shall he live ; and whosoever believeth in me shall never die . " When the solemn sentence was uttered ... calm of your hushed chamber ; but the poor sailor dies at sea between the narrow decks of his rolling vessel . The last ...
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... killed a petrel ; and if that bird dies on board , we'll escape a wreck by the skin of our teeth , or we'll rot down in a dead calm . " Our storm con- tinued without any token of abatement , and last evening the ominous bird was ...
... killed a petrel ; and if that bird dies on board , we'll escape a wreck by the skin of our teeth , or we'll rot down in a dead calm . " Our storm con- tinued without any token of abatement , and last evening the ominous bird was ...
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... dead calm , when this monster saluted us like a locomotive blowing off steam . The column of brine which he threw up with his great forcing - pump , fell in a sparkling shower . Man con- structs his fountain with great cost and pains ...
... dead calm , when this monster saluted us like a locomotive blowing off steam . The column of brine which he threw up with his great forcing - pump , fell in a sparkling shower . Man con- structs his fountain with great cost and pains ...
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Página 204 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Página 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Página 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Página 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 322 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Página 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Página 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.