The Rival Crusoes, Or, The Shipwreck: Also, A Voyage to Norway ; and the Fisherman's Cottage : Founded on FactsJohn Harris, 1836 - 209 pages |
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Page 105 - Aboard, contest the Father of his Crew ! Brave, liberal, just ! the calm domestic scene Had o'er his temper breathed a gay serene : Him Science taught by mystic lore to trace The planets wheeling in eternal race; To mark the Ship in floating balance held, By Earth attracted, and by Seas...
Page 106 - Or point her devious track through climes unknown That leads to every shore and every zone. He saw the moon through heaven's blue concave glide, And into motion charm the expanding tide, While earth impetuous round her axle rolls, Exalts her watery zone, and sinks the poles...
Page 149 - to do your duty in that state of life, unto which it has pleased God to call you.
Page 35 - Here perseverance, with each help of art, Must join the boldest efforts of the heart; These only now their misery can relieve, These only now a dawn of safety give. While o'er the quivering deck from van to rear Broad surges roll in terrible career, Rodmond, Arion, and a chosen crew, This office in the face of death pursue ; The...
Page 35 - Redmond's associates wheel'd the artillery round • Pointed with iron fangs, their bars beguile The ponderous arms across the steep defile; Then, hurl'd from sounding hinges o'er the side, Thundering they plunge into the flashing tide.
Page 183 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 32 - And, rent with labour, yawn'd their pitchy seams. They sound the well, and, terrible to hear! Five feet immersed along the line appear: At either pump they ply the clanking brake, And, turn by turn, the...
Page 33 - ... fortunate as to discover that two puncheons of rum, which belonged to me, had escaped. They were immediately got up, and served out at times in drams; and had it not been for this relief, and some lime-juice, the people would have dropped.
Page 31 - The ship upon this immediately righted, but with great violence; and the motion was so quick, that it was difficult for the people to work the pumps. Three guns broke loose upon the main deck, and it was some time before they were secured.
Page 35 - By the morning of the 20th the fore-hold was cleared of the water, and we had the comfortable promise of a fine day. It proved so, and I was determined to make use of it with every possible exertion. I divided the ship's company, with the officers attending them, into parties, to raise the jury foremast; to heave over the lower-deck guns; to clear the wrecks of the fore and after holds; to prepare the machine for steering' the ship, and to work the pumps.