The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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Page 35 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 32 - Lord of earth and air ! Oh king ! Oh father ! hear my humble prayer : Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore ; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more: If Greece must perish, we thy will obey, but let us perish in the face of day...
Page 150 - This was all very delightful ; and it so happened that Edward had four or five times contrived, during the last year, to meet Clara without discovery and again and again to exchange his vows. It was agreed between them that, when he quitted the station, she should quit her father and her home, and trust her future happiness to an Englishman and a heretic. It may be a matter of surprise to some of our readers that the admiral should not have discovered the frequent visits of the Enterprise...
Page 31 - Lord of earth and air, O king! O father! hear, my humble prayer. Dispel this cloud, that light of heaven restore; Give me to see — and Ajax asks no more, If Greece must perish — we Thy will obey; But let us perish in the face of day?
Page 7 - The captain was, in the usual acceptation of the term, a good sailor; the crew were hardy and able seamen. As they crossed the Atlantic, they had encountered the gale to which we have referred, were driven down into the Bay of Biscay, where, as we shall hereafter explain, the vessel was dismasted, and sprang a leak, which baffled all their exertions to keep under. It was now five days since the frightened crew had quitted the vessel in two of her boats, one of which had swamped, and every soul that...