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 , otherwise she must have found it impossible to travel during the extremity of its fury . But she had hardly added herself so unexpectedly to the party whom chance had assembled at the dwelling of Tripto- lemus Yellowley , when ...
... Norna , otherwise she must have found it impossible to travel during the extremity of its fury . But she had hardly added herself so unexpectedly to the party whom chance had assembled at the dwelling of Tripto- lemus Yellowley , when ...
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... Norna , of which , as they were couched in the Norse lan- guage , the master of the house understood nothing . She listened to them with a haughty and un- moved air , and replied at length aloud , and in English I will not . What if ...
... Norna , of which , as they were couched in the Norse lan- guage , the master of the house understood nothing . She listened to them with a haughty and un- moved air , and replied at length aloud , and in English I will not . What if ...
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... Norna can tell us better than any one when it will abate ; for no one in these islands can judge of the weather like her . " " And is that all thou thinkest Norna can do ? " said the sybil ; " thou shalt know her powers are not bounded ...
... Norna can tell us better than any one when it will abate ; for no one in these islands can judge of the weather like her . " " And is that all thou thinkest Norna can do ? " said the sybil ; " thou shalt know her powers are not bounded ...
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Sir Walter Scott. " I do not - I will not , Norna , " replied Mor daunt ; " I know not your motive for desiring me to ... Norna , " and depart from this house . Fate has high views on you - you shall not remain in this hovel to be crushed ...
Sir Walter Scott. " I do not - I will not , Norna , " replied Mor daunt ; " I know not your motive for desiring me to ... Norna , " and depart from this house . Fate has high views on you - you shall not remain in this hovel to be crushed ...
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... Norna directly ; " out of an honest house , or , shame fa ' me , but I'll take the bittle to you ! " Norna cast on her a look of supreme con- tempt , then stepping to the window , seemed engaged in deep contemplation of the heavens ...
... Norna directly ; " out of an honest house , or , shame fa ' me , but I'll take the bittle to you ! " Norna cast on her a look of supreme con- tempt , then stepping to the window , seemed engaged in deep contemplation of the heavens ...
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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.