The Privateer: A Metrical RomanceGriffith and Farran, 1874 - 160 pages |
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... grief thou feelest there ! 12 " Forgive me , love ! if I have tried From thee my secret thoughts to hide ; To shew them all I will not fail , But first , dear Ellen ! to me tell When does thy cousin Bertrand sail ? " " Some hours ago he ...
... grief thou feelest there ! 12 " Forgive me , love ! if I have tried From thee my secret thoughts to hide ; To shew them all I will not fail , But first , dear Ellen ! to me tell When does thy cousin Bertrand sail ? " " Some hours ago he ...
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... grief ; And in this universe there's none Whose hate I dread , excepting one ! His hate's a demon's , not a man's , To judge by his revengeful plans ; They are so merciless and deep That they inevitably steep Their victims in such ...
... grief ; And in this universe there's none Whose hate I dread , excepting one ! His hate's a demon's , not a man's , To judge by his revengeful plans ; They are so merciless and deep That they inevitably steep Their victims in such ...
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... grief , But listen ; and I will be brief : And though thou gett'st with passion hot , Be calm ; and interrupt me not . 5 " This afternoon , while walking slow With musing mien and downward look Along the bank of yonder brook , I heard a ...
... grief , But listen ; and I will be brief : And though thou gett'st with passion hot , Be calm ; and interrupt me not . 5 " This afternoon , while walking slow With musing mien and downward look Along the bank of yonder brook , I heard a ...
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... grief ; Her undimm'd eyes no sympathy can share , For sorrow then has fled before despair . 11 While Ellen shudder'd with instinctive fear , Close to her side approach'd the privateer ; Upon her form a single glance he threw , Then gave ...
... grief ; Her undimm'd eyes no sympathy can share , For sorrow then has fled before despair . 11 While Ellen shudder'd with instinctive fear , Close to her side approach'd the privateer ; Upon her form a single glance he threw , Then gave ...
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... - relying growr Through life he often trusts to self alone : But woman's weaker frame and calmer heart Were fitly form'd to take life's smoother part ; And when assail'd by sickness or by grief Than stronger CANTO III . CHRISTIANITY . 39 ...
... - relying growr Through life he often trusts to self alone : But woman's weaker frame and calmer heart Were fitly form'd to take life's smoother part ; And when assail'd by sickness or by grief Than stronger CANTO III . CHRISTIANITY . 39 ...
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ADVENTURES appear'd Author Azela BARBARA HUTTON Bertrand Bertrand Du Guesclin Book breast breeze bright British ensign Children cloth elegant coloured deck deed display'd doom'd Ellen EMILIA MARRYAT NORRIS ev'ry eyes fair fate Fcap fear feelings fell felt fled G. A. HENTY gazed gilt edges glance glow grief Harold HARRISON WEIR heard heart hope Illustrations Imperial 16mo Isle JULES VERNE knew land Little lover maid maiden Metric System METRICAL ROMANCE mind morocco antique ne'er Numbers o'er ocean Post 8vo pow'r pray'r press'd price 6d PRISONERS OF ST Queen Elizabeth's Hospital rising rose sail'd sails scarce scene Second Edition seem'd Shillings Shillings and Sixpence ship shone shore silence Small 4to sorrow soul STORIES strife Super Royal 16mo sweet swiftly Tale tears thee Third Edition THOMAS DARNELL THOMAS HOOD thou thought turn'd Twas vanish'd vessel W. H. G. KINGSTON words
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