The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature, Fine Arts, Etc. ..., Volumen3Duncombe., 1824 |
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... arms in their hands , but what we had taken for bows and spears proved to be only a few blades of whalebone , which they had brought either as a peace - offering or for barter , and which we immediately pur- chased for a few nails and ...
... arms in their hands , but what we had taken for bows and spears proved to be only a few blades of whalebone , which they had brought either as a peace - offering or for barter , and which we immediately pur- chased for a few nails and ...
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... arms and sub- mitted . Between thirty and forty of the Shannon's marines quickly followed the first boarding party . These kept down the men who were ascending the main hatchway , and answered a spirited fire still continued from the ...
... arms and sub- mitted . Between thirty and forty of the Shannon's marines quickly followed the first boarding party . These kept down the men who were ascending the main hatchway , and answered a spirited fire still continued from the ...
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... arm was a bottle of port , procured at Slaughter's coffee- house ; and in each hand a French brick . An antique gridiron was placed on the fire , and Mr. Burke performed the office of cook ; while Barry as butler , set the table , which ...
... arm was a bottle of port , procured at Slaughter's coffee- house ; and in each hand a French brick . An antique gridiron was placed on the fire , and Mr. Burke performed the office of cook ; while Barry as butler , set the table , which ...
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... arms , conveyed her to the house of a neighbouring friend , had her put into a warm bed , and in a few weeks she was perfectly restored to life and health . As she had a real affection for her first husband , she made no scruple of ...
... arms , conveyed her to the house of a neighbouring friend , had her put into a warm bed , and in a few weeks she was perfectly restored to life and health . As she had a real affection for her first husband , she made no scruple of ...
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... arms ? ' - No such thing ! 1 said the king pleasantly . What , then , is the object of the thanksgiving ? " Oh to give thanks that it is no worse . ' -6 It is related of Philip King of France , that when his navy was destroyed at Sluys ...
... arms ? ' - No such thing ! 1 said the king pleasantly . What , then , is the object of the thanksgiving ? " Oh to give thanks that it is no worse . ' -6 It is related of Philip King of France , that when his navy was destroyed at Sluys ...
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Página 54 - Muse The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 295 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night" He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep.
Página 294 - On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene ; evening was gradually advancing ; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors...
Página 293 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch, of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the -west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
Página 294 - They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's.
Página 294 - ... surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which, impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening cloud.
Página 291 - When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him; when blasted in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around his name, she loved him the more ardently for his very sufferings. If, then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what must have been the agony of her, whose whole soul was occupied by his image? Let those tell who have had the portals of the tomb suddenly closed between them and the being they most loved on earth — who have sat at its threshold, as one shut out...
Página 295 - As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every one in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when, to his astonishment,...
Página 69 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
Página 294 - What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed.