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... thing could be fairer than the junc- tion - start . But , alas ! on beginning to make play , we made a discovery ... things into consideration , judged it advisable to follow the 10 [ July , Christopher on Colonsay . Fytte Second .
... thing could be fairer than the junc- tion - start . But , alas ! on beginning to make play , we made a discovery ... things into consideration , judged it advisable to follow the 10 [ July , Christopher on Colonsay . Fytte Second .
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... thing else at the first revolution , ( perhaps before , ) and went into more complete wreck than any thing else , as they have never been in any degree re - esta- blished . While these remain , disor- ganization , however violent , can ...
... thing else at the first revolution , ( perhaps before , ) and went into more complete wreck than any thing else , as they have never been in any degree re - esta- blished . While these remain , disor- ganization , however violent , can ...
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... thing but the close - reefed main - topsail , and reefed foresail . " A nod is as good as a wink , " said I , as I called all hands to shorten sail ; and when we had every thing snug , I looked out in the direction from whence we expect ...
... thing but the close - reefed main - topsail , and reefed foresail . " A nod is as good as a wink , " said I , as I called all hands to shorten sail ; and when we had every thing snug , I looked out in the direction from whence we expect ...
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... thing had to be let go by the run when the squall came down , and the consequence was , that the fore and maintopsails had been fairly blown out of the bolt ropes , and were now streaming straight out in ribbons , while the foresail ...
... thing had to be let go by the run when the squall came down , and the consequence was , that the fore and maintopsails had been fairly blown out of the bolt ropes , and were now streaming straight out in ribbons , while the foresail ...
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... thing once more appeared to be going on orderly on board . “ Come , ” said I , to old Shavings the carpenter , who was looking out at her alongside of me , " if the wea- ther would only moderate a bit , a small touch of your quality ...
... thing once more appeared to be going on orderly on board . “ Come , ” said I , to old Shavings the carpenter , who was looking out at her alongside of me , " if the wea- ther would only moderate a bit , a small touch of your quality ...
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Page 521 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled...
Page 537 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 521 - O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink : Companion of the...
Page 536 - The Wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 537 - And some in dreams assured were Of. the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.
Page 514 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 535 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 160 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 535 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 536 - And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, " There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.