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Great Shipwrecks: A Record of Perils and Disasters at Sea. 1544-1877 ... - Page 67
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1877 - 637 pages
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The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of ...

Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 pages
...the wonders of the deep, and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. I delighted to loll over the quarter-railing, or climb...billows, rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away <Jn those happy shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...main-top, of a calm day, and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom •of a summer's sea;—to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just peering...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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Orthopony; Or the Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...peering above the horizon, fancy * them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own ; or to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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Orthophony; Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own ; or to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe. with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. With a new intr. by the author

Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own;—to watch the gentle undulating billows, rolling their...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1849 - 538 pages
...fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own ; — to watch the gentle undulating bili lows, rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - 1850 - 534 pages
...climb to the main-top, of a calm day, and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a sum mer's sea; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which 1 looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own ; or to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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Works, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 pages
...climb to the main-top, of a calm day, and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a sum mer's sea ; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which 1 looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their...
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A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies ...

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...above the horizon, and fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own ; or to watch the gentle, undulating billows, rolling their...shores. There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their...
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