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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... natural and unaffected seriousness , she should change that deportment for one more gay . In short , notwithstanding our wish to have avoided that hackneyed simile of an angel , we cannot avoid saying there was something in the serious ...
... natural and unaffected seriousness , she should change that deportment for one more gay . In short , notwithstanding our wish to have avoided that hackneyed simile of an angel , we cannot avoid saying there was something in the serious ...
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... natural and serene cheerfulness of disposition , attracted even more general admiration than the charms of her sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character ...
... natural and serene cheerfulness of disposition , attracted even more general admiration than the charms of her sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character ...
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... nature was before Minna , that noblest of volumes , where we are ever called to wonder and to admire , even when we cannot understand . The plants of those wild regions , the shells on the shores , and the long list of feathered clans ...
... nature was before Minna , that noblest of volumes , where we are ever called to wonder and to admire , even when we cannot understand . The plants of those wild regions , the shells on the shores , and the long list of feathered clans ...
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... natural objects was to her a passion capable of not only occupying , but at times of agitating her mind . Scenes upon which her sister looked with a sense of transient awe or emotion , which vanished on her return from witnessing them ...
... natural objects was to her a passion capable of not only occupying , but at times of agitating her mind . Scenes upon which her sister looked with a sense of transient awe or emotion , which vanished on her return from witnessing them ...
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... natural resources of the youth , who was rendered alike impatient by the pelting of the storm , and by the most unexpected and unusual obstacles to instant admission . As he was suffered , however , for many minutes to ex- haust his ...
... natural resources of the youth , who was rendered alike impatient by the pelting of the storm , and by the most unexpected and unusual obstacles to instant admission . As he was suffered , however , for many minutes to ex- haust his ...
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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.