Off the Skelligs: A Novel ...Roberts, 1894 - 666 עמודים |
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עמוד 449 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
עמוד 291 - So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's handsome, valiant, wise, If he can kill him, thinks t...
עמוד 96 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
עמוד 19 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
עמוד 407 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
עמוד 345 - Tromp was so much elated that he sailed through the Channel with a broom at his masthead, to signify that he had swept the sea of British ships. In the February following, Blake, having with great diligence repaired his fleet, put to sea with 60 sail, and soon after met the Dutch admiral, who had 70 sail and 300 merchantmen under convoy.
עמוד 97 - The world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
עמוד 522 - I a' my fee, For ae blast o' the western wind, To blaw the reek frae thee." O then bespake her daughter dear,- — She was baith jimp and sma' : " O row
עמוד 14 - Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare ? Speak to me what thou art.
עמוד 274 - THE OUBIT. IT was an hairy oubit, sae proud he crept alang ; A feckless hairy oubit, and merrily he sang — " My Minnie bad me bide at hame until I won my wings ; I shew her soon my soul's aboon the warks o