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... Captain Harcourt , who was returned from his country yoyage , and was waiting to receive his dispatches for Europe , one day paid his for- mer ward a visit , during which they were left alone . The day after this interview the dreadful ...
... Captain Harcourt , who was returned from his country yoyage , and was waiting to receive his dispatches for Europe , one day paid his for- mer ward a visit , during which they were left alone . The day after this interview the dreadful ...
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... cast a blot of infamy upon their family ; and her uncle , who was then the governor of the settlement , was deter- mined to make the young captain give ample re- paration for the injury he had done ; but even 46 THE WANDERER .
... cast a blot of infamy upon their family ; and her uncle , who was then the governor of the settlement , was deter- mined to make the young captain give ample re- paration for the injury he had done ; but even 46 THE WANDERER .
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... captain Harcourt was the man who had rioted in her charms , and triumphed over her virtue . The following particulars were soon in- dustriously circulated : One fatal night , a short time previous to the ship's arrival on the Indian ...
... captain Harcourt was the man who had rioted in her charms , and triumphed over her virtue . The following particulars were soon in- dustriously circulated : One fatal night , a short time previous to the ship's arrival on the Indian ...
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... captain needed no hint of mine to stimulate a proper answer , but called vociferously for pen and ink , and wrote the following laconic and energetic scrawl : " You whoreson miscreant , what do you mane by THE WANDERER . 155.
... captain needed no hint of mine to stimulate a proper answer , but called vociferously for pen and ink , and wrote the following laconic and energetic scrawl : " You whoreson miscreant , what do you mane by THE WANDERER . 155.
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... Captain RATTLE O'CALLAGHAN O'SHALLAGAN . " Having dispatched this elegant composition to the challenger , he began to whistle and hum in turns some wild Irish air he had heard amongst his native mountains , and to which he gave some ...
... Captain RATTLE O'CALLAGHAN O'SHALLAGAN . " Having dispatched this elegant composition to the challenger , he began to whistle and hum in turns some wild Irish air he had heard amongst his native mountains , and to which he gave some ...
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Abdallah able acquainted adventure affection Agra Ahmedabad amidst amongst amusement Andalusia appeared ardour Arrah arrived beams beautiful beheld blooming Bombay bosom captain cavern CHARLES FOTHERGILL charms contemplate countenance dare dark daugh dear death degree delight desolated wilderness dreadful dulcinea earth endeavour eternal eyes favoured fear female finer feelings flowers Frederick gentleman girl gloom glowing grief happiness heart heav'n Hibernian Hindoos honour hope hour human imagination immortal bard India Indian shore interesting JAMES WALLIS Jasus Julia labour luxuriant mankind manner Matlock melan melancholy mighty mind neral never night o'er object once painful Parsees passions Persian language person pleasure possessed present render scarcely scene shade shew silent smiled soft solitude soon sorrow soul stood storms suffered Surat sweet tears thee thou thought tion trees ture Tyburn unfortunate vast vice WANDERER whilst wretched youth
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Page 78 - In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen " Looks through the horizontal misty air " Shorn of hi* beams, or from behind the moon.
Page 7 - And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; " Careless their merits or their faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began. " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, " And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side;
Page 6 - he was, to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, " Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r,
Page 183 - I cannot tell what you and other men " Think of this life ; but, for my single self, " I had as lief not be, as live to be " In awe of such a thing as I myself. " I was born free as Caesar ; so were you: • " We both have fed as well j and we can both " Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Page 7 - Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; " The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, " Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away, " Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Page 6 - By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; ** Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. " His house was known to all the vagrant train;
Page 130 - O curse of marriage, " That we can call these delicate creatures ours, " And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad» " And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, "Than keep a corner in the thing
Page 123 - Teach nothing but to name his tools. " But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; "A Babylonish dialect, " Which learned pedants much affect : " It was a party-colour'd dress " Of patch'd and pieball'd languages: " 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, " Like fustian heretofore on satin:
Page 95 - Withal, as large a charter as the wind, " To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have: " And they that are most galled with my folly, " They most must laugh.'