The Pirate, Volumen 1Archibald Constable and Company; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London., 1822 - 346 páginas At the end of the 1600's, the customs and beliefs of the Norse are ebbing away from the Shetland and Orkney islands. Only the elder daughter of the Troil family wants to preserve the old ways, and vowing to marry only a "sea-king," favors a shipwrecked captain. Her father's cousin wishes her to marry Mordaunt, secretly believing him to be her long-lost son; Mordaunt though loves the younger daughter. Both men are driven from the Troils; Mordaunt is grievously injured and the captain is arrested for piracy. |
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... Norna of Fitful - head , the most fearful woman in all the isles ! " " Where can she have been wandering ? " said Mordaunt , not without some apparent sympathy with the surprise , if not with the alarm , 114 THE PIRATE .
... Norna of Fitful - head , the most fearful woman in all the isles ! " " Where can she have been wandering ? " said Mordaunt , not without some apparent sympathy with the surprise , if not with the alarm , 114 THE PIRATE .
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... Norna , and know not your name or qua- lities ; they are unacquainted , too , with the ways of this country , and therefore we must hold them excused for their lack of hospitality . " " I lack no hospitality , young man , " said ...
... Norna , and know not your name or qua- lities ; they are unacquainted , too , with the ways of this country , and therefore we must hold them excused for their lack of hospitality . " " I lack no hospitality , young man , " said ...
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... Norna looks forth at the measureless , waters , from the crest of Fitful- head , something is yet left that resembles power of defence . If the men of Thule have ceased to be champions , and to spread the banquet for the raven , the ...
... Norna looks forth at the measureless , waters , from the crest of Fitful- head , something is yet left that resembles power of defence . If the men of Thule have ceased to be champions , and to spread the banquet for the raven , the ...
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... Norna of the Fitful - head , upon whom many of the inhabitants of the island looked with obser vance , many with fear , and almost all with a sort of veneration . Less pregnant circumstances of sus- picion would , in any other part of ...
... Norna of the Fitful - head , upon whom many of the inhabitants of the island looked with obser vance , many with fear , and almost all with a sort of veneration . Less pregnant circumstances of sus- picion would , in any other part of ...
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... Norna , de- scended from , and representative of a family which had long pretended to such gifts , was so eminent , that the name assigned to her , which signifies one of those fatal sisters who weave the web of human fate , had been ...
... Norna , de- scended from , and representative of a family which had long pretended to such gifts , was so eminent , that the name assigned to her , which signifies one of those fatal sisters who weave the web of human fate , had been ...
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amongst ancient answered auld better betwixt bonny Brenda Bryce Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland cliff Clinkscale dark daunt door Drows elder Mertoun exclaimed father favour Fitful-head folks frae fury goose guests Halcro hand handsome Harfra hear heard hospitality inhabitants islands isles jagger Jarlshof journey land Lerwick look Lord Chamberlain Magnus Troil mair mansion Master Mordaunt maun mind Minna Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse occasion ocean once Orkney pedlar precipice racter Ranzelman Reim-kennar replied Mordaunt rienced rock Saint Andrews scarce Scotland seemed share sheltie shew sister song stood storm Stourburgh strange stranger Sumburgh-head Swertha tacksman tell tempest thing thou thought Thule tion tone Triptole Triptolemus Yellowley Tronda troth Udaller Unst usual vessel voice waves weather weel wild woman young youth Zetland
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Página 50 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 49 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 297 - Tom, as they used to call him — somewhat roughly treated by the glorious John, you remember — Mordaunt, you remember — Methinks I see the new Arion sail, The lute still trembling underneath thy nail ; At thy well-sharpen'd thumb, from shore to shore, The trebles squeak for fear, the basses roar.