The Jack O'lantern: (le Feu-follet;) Or, The Privateer |
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... smiles and god- like expression the furnace that so often glows within the heart , and the volcano that consumes our happiness . For centuries the Turk and the Moor rendered it unsafe for the European to navigate these smiling coasts ...
... smiles and god- like expression the furnace that so often glows within the heart , and the volcano that consumes our happiness . For centuries the Turk and the Moor rendered it unsafe for the European to navigate these smiling coasts ...
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... smile , " as this is not an affair which is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence , your explanations may be taken as sufficient , and I have no wish to disturb them -a lug- ger , is a lugger . " " Si , Signore : that is just ...
... smile , " as this is not an affair which is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence , your explanations may be taken as sufficient , and I have no wish to disturb them -a lug- ger , is a lugger . " " Si , Signore : that is just ...
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... smiling benevolently , as if in pity for the pilot's embarrassment ; " he wishes to persuade us that the strange craft yonder is a lug- ger , though he cannot himself say to what country she belongs ! " " It is a lugger , Signore ...
... smiling benevolently , as if in pity for the pilot's embarrassment ; " he wishes to persuade us that the strange craft yonder is a lug- ger , though he cannot himself say to what country she belongs ! " " It is a lugger , Signore ...
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... smile and an exult- ing gesture . " It is well for Europe that the grand duchy is so small , since such troops might prove even more troublesome than the French ! " Ghita , however , paid no attention to this touch of provincial pride ...
... smile and an exult- ing gesture . " It is well for Europe that the grand duchy is so small , since such troops might prove even more troublesome than the French ! " Ghita , however , paid no attention to this touch of provincial pride ...
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... smile , half pleasure half irony , lighting her face , as unconsciously to herself she spoke , " These Tuscan artillerists are no fatal marksmen ! ” " That was most dexterously done , bella Ghita ! " exclaimed the magistrate , removing ...
... smile , half pleasure half irony , lighting her face , as unconsciously to herself she spoke , " These Tuscan artillerists are no fatal marksmen ! ” " That was most dexterously done , bella Ghita ! " exclaimed the magistrate , removing ...
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a-head admiral anchor Andrea Barrofaldi appearance boat breeze cabin called canvass Capitano Capri Captain Cuffe Captain Rule Caraccioli Carlo Giuntotardi carronades chase circumstances Clinch coast commander course craft crew deck duty eccellenza Elba Elbans enemy English escape Etooelle exclaimed eyes favour feeling felt felucca Feu-Follet Few-Folly fire followed forecastle French Frenchman frigate Ghita girl Griffin guns hand hauled heard heart honour hour Ischia island Italian Ithuel Jack O'Lantern judge-advocate land Le Feu-Follet lieutenant light look lugger Lyon manner mariners Maso matter mind minutes Monsieur Yvard Naples Nelson never night officer passed podestà port Porto Ferrajo prisoner Proserpine Raoul Yvard render Ringdove rocks sail seamen seen serpine ship shore side Signor Vice-governatore Sir Frederick Sir Smees smile soon stand stranger tell Terpsichore thee thing thou thought truth vessel vice-governor Ving-y-Ving Vito Viti Winchester wind wish yawl young
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Page 184 - If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast; If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope, I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 290 - WHITE as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity.
Page 358 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 169 - A justice of the peace, for the time being, They bow to, but may turn him out next year ; They reverence their priest, but disagreeing In price or creed, dismiss him without fear ; They have a natural talent for foreseeing And knowing all things ; — and should PAKK appear From his long tour in Africa, to show The Niger's source, they 'd meet him with — We know.
Page 1 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.