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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... Brenda , was of a complexion as differing from her sister , as they differed in character , taste , and expression . Her profuse locks were of that paly brown which receives from the passing sun - beam a tinge of gold THE PIRATE . 45.
... Brenda , was of a complexion as differing from her sister , as they differed in character , taste , and expression . Her profuse locks were of that paly brown which receives from the passing sun - beam a tinge of gold THE PIRATE . 45.
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... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
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... sister looked with a sense of transient awe or emotion , which vanished on her return from witnessing them , continued long to fill Minna's imagination , not only in solitude , and in the silence of the night , but in the hours of ...
... sister looked with a sense of transient awe or emotion , which vanished on her return from witnessing them , continued long to fill Minna's imagination , not only in solitude , and in the silence of the night , but in the hours of ...
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... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed , the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabitants of a certain rank were ...
... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed , the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabitants of a certain rank were ...
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... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a frequent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable character of the country betwixt ...
... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a frequent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable character of the country betwixt ...
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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.