Naval Sketchbook: Or, The Service Afloat and Ashore, with Characteristic Reminiscences, Fragments and Opinions ...

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Pagina 75 - And sigh, but never tremble at the sound. He travels and expatiates, as the bee From flower to flower, so he from land to land ; The manners, customs, policy, of all Pay contribution to the store he gleans ; He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Pagina 91 - Eternal Cause Prone for His favourites to reverse His laws? Shall burning Etna, if a sage requires, Forget to thunder, and recall her fires? On air or sea new motions be imprest, Oh, blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?
Pagina 232 - After rowsing in forty or fifty fathoms, which had put his patience severely to proof, as well as every muscle of his arms, he muttered to himself,
Pagina 152 - I'md — d if it isn't,' says Dick, and aft he flies to make the report. Well, I felt summut or so queerish a bit (though I says nothing to no one, you know), for 'twas only a fortnight afore the corporal and I had a bit of a breeze 'bout taking my pot nil' the fire. Well, gays the voice, ' Will you heave us a rope ! I don't want a boat !
Pagina 89 - ... had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.
Pagina 154 - Why, the corporal's ghost, to be sure,' says one of the group. — ' No, nor the sign of a ghost — nor a ghost's mate's minister's mate — nor nothing that looked like a lubberly lobster, dead or alive...
Pagina 97 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Pagina 261 - In the heat of the action, one of the hen-coops being shot away on the poop, a cock flew on the shoulder of Captain Morris, then severely wounded ; and, as if his pugnacious spirit had been roused by the furious conflict he witnessed, flapped his wings and crowed lustily in that situation, to the no small encouragement of the seamen...
Pagina 227 - Destruction appeared inevitable in their helpless condition. A shriek of despair, mingled with execrations, succeeded as she neared the galley, when the Lieutenant rose in the boat, levelled his pistol at the steersman, and fired : the hand which grasped the tiller relaxed its hold, and the miscreant his life. The lugger instantly broached-to, passing to the windward of the boat.—" Out oars, my lads," said the Lieutenant, "we'll board the villains.
Pagina 151 - Patterson's tongue, arid the moon as bright as h'er eye — shoals of beneties playing under the bows; what should I hear but a voice as was hailing the ship ! Well, I never says nothing till.

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