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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... wild poems , which , half recited , half chaunted , by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated , pointed out the very bay on which they sailed as the scene of a bloody sea - fight ; the scarce - seen ...
... wild poems , which , half recited , half chaunted , by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated , pointed out the very bay on which they sailed as the scene of a bloody sea - fight ; the scarce - seen ...
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... wild tales and rude exercises which we have already mentioned . The season of winter , when , from the shortness of the day - light , labour becomes impossible , is in Zetland the time of revel , feasting , and mer- riment . Whatever ...
... wild tales and rude exercises which we have already mentioned . The season of winter , when , from the shortness of the day - light , labour becomes impossible , is in Zetland the time of revel , feasting , and mer- riment . Whatever ...
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... wild regions , the shells on the shores , and the long list of feathered clans which haunt their cliffs and eyries , were as well known to Minna Troil , ast to the most experienced of the fowlers . Her powers of observation were ...
... wild regions , the shells on the shores , and the long list of feathered clans which haunt their cliffs and eyries , were as well known to Minna Troil , ast to the most experienced of the fowlers . Her powers of observation were ...
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... wild sea - shore , and amongst the yet wild- er mountains of her native isles . And yet , when recalled to conversation , and mingling in it with interest , there were few to whom her friends were 48 THE PIRATE .
... wild sea - shore , and amongst the yet wild- er mountains of her native isles . And yet , when recalled to conversation , and mingling in it with interest , there were few to whom her friends were 48 THE PIRATE .
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... wild , solemn , and simple airs , to which Scalds and harpers sung of old the deeds of heroes , and presently found equally active in teaching Brenda the more lively and complicated music , which their father's affec- tion caused to be ...
... wild , solemn , and simple airs , to which Scalds and harpers sung of old the deeds of heroes , and presently found equally active in teaching Brenda the more lively and complicated music , which their father's affec- tion caused to be ...
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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.