The Privateer: A Metrical RomanceGriffith and Farran, 1874 - 160 pages |
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... mind ; also that portions of the work were com- posed in the forecastle , at the wheel , and aloft ; and that it was complèted during my twenty- second year . I have been told by literary advisers that humorous writing.
... mind ; also that portions of the work were com- posed in the forecastle , at the wheel , and aloft ; and that it was complèted during my twenty- second year . I have been told by literary advisers that humorous writing.
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... mind ; The latter was unusually high , The former seem'd all study to defy ; And yet those features caused him to appear Form'd for the good to love , the bad to fear . 4 He look'd around , but could not see The person he expected there ...
... mind ; The latter was unusually high , The former seem'd all study to defy ; And yet those features caused him to appear Form'd for the good to love , the bad to fear . 4 He look'd around , but could not see The person he expected there ...
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... dower- Made her incalculably rich ; Oh ! if I could enumerate The charms to her by nature given , And of her sinless mind , that great Inestimable gift of heaven , Write down a true description here- What a fair image CANTO I. 7 ELLEN .
... dower- Made her incalculably rich ; Oh ! if I could enumerate The charms to her by nature given , And of her sinless mind , that great Inestimable gift of heaven , Write down a true description here- What a fair image CANTO I. 7 ELLEN .
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... mind and eye : But that , alas ; t'were vain to try . 8 The poet wants a heroine- A child of beauty , free from sin , - A vision rises in his mind , A form of such pure loveliness , Possessing beauty so refined . That he a moment feels ...
... mind and eye : But that , alas ; t'were vain to try . 8 The poet wants a heroine- A child of beauty , free from sin , - A vision rises in his mind , A form of such pure loveliness , Possessing beauty so refined . That he a moment feels ...
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... mind's conceptions never can portray ; Try all we can , we must at last confess The former lacks the latter's loveliness : In Fancy's realms a perfect form may rise , But only there unchanged it lives and dies . 9 The maiden seem'd ...
... mind's conceptions never can portray ; Try all we can , we must at last confess The former lacks the latter's loveliness : In Fancy's realms a perfect form may rise , But only there unchanged it lives and dies . 9 The maiden seem'd ...
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