The Staff Officer; Or, The Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life, Volumen2E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 |
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Página 68
... vessel was commanded by an old lieutenant of the navy , whose messmates were a surgeon , purser , and acting master . Professional distinctions , certainly of a very invidious nature , were carried so far , that a boundary line on the ...
... vessel was commanded by an old lieutenant of the navy , whose messmates were a surgeon , purser , and acting master . Professional distinctions , certainly of a very invidious nature , were carried so far , that a boundary line on the ...
Página 69
... vessels , provisions , & c . « CHAPTER XVIII . " Come , all hands ahoy to the anchor , From friends and relations we go . " NEXT morning , at nine , a gun from the commodore , fore - top- sail loose , and Blue Peter at the mast - head ...
... vessels , provisions , & c . « CHAPTER XVIII . " Come , all hands ahoy to the anchor , From friends and relations we go . " NEXT morning , at nine , a gun from the commodore , fore - top- sail loose , and Blue Peter at the mast - head ...
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... vessel began to kick , as the seamen term it ; and becoming a little qualmish , I laid myself down , and felt not how the world went until seven next morning , when even the diurnal knockings and scrubbings over my head had not the ...
... vessel began to kick , as the seamen term it ; and becoming a little qualmish , I laid myself down , and felt not how the world went until seven next morning , when even the diurnal knockings and scrubbings over my head had not the ...
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... vessel lying down on her fresh tack , assumed a decided po- sition in the water . For the preceding four hours I had been to leeward . My berth was now to windward ; and in the disturbed state of my head and nerves , I expected nothing ...
... vessel lying down on her fresh tack , assumed a decided po- sition in the water . For the preceding four hours I had been to leeward . My berth was now to windward ; and in the disturbed state of my head and nerves , I expected nothing ...
Página 76
... vessel ; and on refer- ring to the returns , I perceived with sorrow that TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY - THREE MEN AND ELEVEN OFFICERS had embarked on board that ill - fated ship ! We heard nothing of the particulars of this calamity until ...
... vessel ; and on refer- ring to the returns , I perceived with sorrow that TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY - THREE MEN AND ELEVEN OFFICERS had embarked on board that ill - fated ship ! We heard nothing of the particulars of this calamity until ...
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The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life Oliver Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life Oliver Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life Oliver Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 205 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 98 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Página 92 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Página 39 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Página 201 - The adventures follow each other with delightful rapidity and variety ; occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we feel not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the parties have originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of pulling an ear.
Página 202 - Admirable. Truly, intensely Irish. The whole book has the brogue — never were the outrageous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically displayed; nor, in the midst of all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a jewel, and he will be reviewed next number. Shepherd. The Eerishers are marchin in leeterature, pawri pashu? wi