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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... rock in an Arabian desert is not more reluctant to afford water , than Mr Basil Mertoun was niggard in imparting his confi- dence , even incidentally ; and certainly the politeness of the gentry of Thule was never put to a more severe ...
... rock in an Arabian desert is not more reluctant to afford water , than Mr Basil Mertoun was niggard in imparting his confi- dence , even incidentally ; and certainly the politeness of the gentry of Thule was never put to a more severe ...
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... rock- cod , purchased by the former from the latter , for the use of the family at Jarlshof . When this was fairly ascertained and con- fessed , Mr Mertoun stood looking upon the culprits with eyes in which the utmost scorn seemed to ...
... rock- cod , purchased by the former from the latter , for the use of the family at Jarlshof . When this was fairly ascertained and con- fessed , Mr Mertoun stood looking upon the culprits with eyes in which the utmost scorn seemed to ...
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... of Orkney , executed for tyranny and oppression practised on the in- habitants of these remote islands in the beginning of the seventeenth century . real grievance must have been the charging the rock cod 26 THE PIRATE .
... of Orkney , executed for tyranny and oppression practised on the in- habitants of these remote islands in the beginning of the seventeenth century . real grievance must have been the charging the rock cod 26 THE PIRATE .
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Sir Walter Scott. real grievance must have been the charging the rock cod - fish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a - piece ; he therefore exhorted all the commu- nity never to raise their exactions in future beyond the proportion of ...
Sir Walter Scott. real grievance must have been the charging the rock cod - fish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a - piece ; he therefore exhorted all the commu- nity never to raise their exactions in future beyond the proportion of ...
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... rock , over which the vivid ocean foams and boils , -dark caverns , to whose extremities neither man nor skiff has ever ventured , -lonely , and often un- inhabited isles , and occasionally the ruins of ancient northern fastnesses ...
... rock , over which the vivid ocean foams and boils , -dark caverns , to whose extremities neither man nor skiff has ever ventured , -lonely , and often un- inhabited isles , and occasionally the ruins of ancient northern fastnesses ...
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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.