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... Captain Grenouille , and in the course and England was swept so clean by the sea of a few years was known on the shore of the guerillas of the two nations , that the poor priva - channel by no other name . teers must have starved if ...
... Captain Grenouille , and in the course and England was swept so clean by the sea of a few years was known on the shore of the guerillas of the two nations , that the poor priva - channel by no other name . teers must have starved if ...
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... Captain Grenouille . " 66 Nothing more ? " 66 Nothing more at present . " - " Now do , brother , I beg of you , treat me with a little more kindness . I am as true a comrade as ever a fellow had , and even now , so far from being angry ...
... Captain Grenouille . " 66 Nothing more ? " 66 Nothing more at present . " - " Now do , brother , I beg of you , treat me with a little more kindness . I am as true a comrade as ever a fellow had , and even now , so far from being angry ...
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... Captain Frog ? " Say away , Captain Beggar . " 66 " Well , there are ten ships of ours which will pay me a thousand pounds apiece , if I bring them safely through the channel . Will you let them alone ? One good turn , you know " - " Of ...
... Captain Frog ? " Say away , Captain Beggar . " 66 " Well , there are ten ships of ours which will pay me a thousand pounds apiece , if I bring them safely through the channel . Will you let them alone ? One good turn , you know " - " Of ...
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... Captain Grenouille at length revisited which he at first supposed to be the fragment of a his Norman farms , the harvest had been gathered dream ; and when he recognized Captain Beggar three times during his absence . in lith and limb ...
... Captain Grenouille at length revisited which he at first supposed to be the fragment of a his Norman farms , the harvest had been gathered dream ; and when he recognized Captain Beggar three times during his absence . in lith and limb ...
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... captain standing by offered to take it at 3s . , and then at 2s . 9d .; but the merchan . would unmanned , to make himself a fool , is not fit to be trusted ; and he will not be , if temperate men car . be procured at any price . A ...
... captain standing by offered to take it at 3s . , and then at 2s . 9d .; but the merchan . would unmanned , to make himself a fool , is not fit to be trusted ; and he will not be , if temperate men car . be procured at any price . A ...
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Page 67 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...
Page 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 281 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 4 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 66 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 4 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!
Page 100 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 66 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 100 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Page 63 - It had been long abandoned, for its sides Gaped wide with many a rift, and its frail joints Swayed with the undulations of the tide. A restless impulse urged him to embark, And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.