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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... mind permitted , or indeed re- quired his absence , he wandered from house to house , a welcome guest wherever he came , and lent his willing voice to the song , and his foot to the revel . A boat , or , if the weather , as was often ...
... mind permitted , or indeed re- quired his absence , he wandered from house to house , a welcome guest wherever he came , and lent his willing voice to the song , and his foot to the revel . A boat , or , if the weather , as was often ...
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... mind . Scenes upon which her 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 ...
... mind . Scenes upon which her 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 ...
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... mind warned him to absent himself , Mordaunt , at every risk , and under every difficulty , was pretty sure to be found upon the next day at Burgh - Westra , having achieved his journey in less time than would have been employed per ...
... mind warned him to absent himself , Mordaunt , at every risk , and under every difficulty , was pretty sure to be found upon the next day at Burgh - Westra , having achieved his journey in less time than would have been employed per ...
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... old Magnus , the father , should teach Master Mordaunt Mertoun to know his own mind . " It was a pretty thing , indeed , " they usually concluded , “ that he , no native born , and possessed of no visible means of THE PIRATE . 53.
... old Magnus , the father , should teach Master Mordaunt Mertoun to know his own mind . " It was a pretty thing , indeed , " they usually concluded , “ that he , no native born , and possessed of no visible means of THE PIRATE . 53.
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... mind fire or water , wave by sea , or quag- mire by land . " Thus he struggled on , buffet- ing with the storm , supplying the want of the . usual signs by which travellers directed their course , ( for rock , mountain , and headland ...
... mind fire or water , wave by sea , or quag- mire by land . " Thus he struggled on , buffet- ing with the storm , supplying the want of the . usual signs by which travellers directed their course , ( for rock , mountain , and headland ...
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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.