The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volumen 13Merrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 páginas |
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Página 5851
... side , and struck a piece of the battery with such force as to unship it . Then rose the cry of distress which had been heard . The men rushed toward the ladder ; the gun deck emptied in the twinkling of an eye . The enormous cannon was ...
... side , and struck a piece of the battery with such force as to unship it . Then rose the cry of distress which had been heard . The men rushed toward the ladder ; the gun deck emptied in the twinkling of an eye . The enormous cannon was ...
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... side , for- tunately above the water line , though they would leak in case a squall should come on . It dashed itself frantically against the framework ; the solid tiebeams resisted , their curved form giving them great strength , but ...
... side , for- tunately above the water line , though they would leak in case a squall should come on . It dashed itself frantically against the framework ; the solid tiebeams resisted , their curved form giving them great strength , but ...
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... side , and the corvette began to take in water . The old passenger , who had descended to the gun deck , looked like a form of stone stationed at the foot of the stairs . He stood motionless , gazing sternly about upon the devasta- tion ...
... side , and the corvette began to take in water . The old passenger , who had descended to the gun deck , looked like a form of stone stationed at the foot of the stairs . He stood motionless , gazing sternly about upon the devasta- tion ...
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... side blind force , on the other a soul . The whole passed in a half light . It was like the indis- tinct vision of a miracle . - A soul , strange thing ; but you would have said that the cannon had one also , a soul filled with rage and ...
... side blind force , on the other a soul . The whole passed in a half light . It was like the indis- tinct vision of a miracle . - A soul , strange thing ; but you would have said that the cannon had one also , a soul filled with rage and ...
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... side , bar and rope in hand , and the cannon had the air of under- standing , and fled as if it perceived a snare . The man pur- sued it , formidable , fearless . - 99 Such a duel could not last long . The gun seemed sud- denly to say ...
... side , bar and rope in hand , and the cannon had the air of under- standing , and fled as if it perceived a snare . The man pur- sued it , formidable , fearless . - 99 Such a duel could not last long . The gun seemed sud- denly to say ...
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Página 5884 - Life's night begins: let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again!
Página 6165 - A weary waste expanding to the skies : Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 5897 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 6169 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Página 6231 - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea : But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.
Página 5945 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 6010 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Página 5892 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Página 6013 - Ye distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade -Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade...
Página 6014 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...