Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony: Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &c |
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... things which others understand : " I expect to slip the time not unpleasantly , to see and hear some- thing new , to somewhat expand my mind , and to enrich it with novel imagery . Never had any one more boldly developed , say the ...
... things which others understand : " I expect to slip the time not unpleasantly , to see and hear some- thing new , to somewhat expand my mind , and to enrich it with novel imagery . Never had any one more boldly developed , say the ...
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... thing , I make one of them . I do as the others do , as a learner should , seize a handspike , fix it in the capstan , and work at intervals for more than an hour ; clumsy , as a land - lubber is sure to be , but by degrees learn what I ...
... thing , I make one of them . I do as the others do , as a learner should , seize a handspike , fix it in the capstan , and work at intervals for more than an hour ; clumsy , as a land - lubber is sure to be , but by degrees learn what I ...
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... thing . Our ship and its movements , in comparison , seemed to belong to a long - ago condition of things - to systems and ages outworn . I felt as though I were in some extinguishing comet , that was half slumbering in the ashes of its ...
... thing . Our ship and its movements , in comparison , seemed to belong to a long - ago condition of things - to systems and ages outworn . I felt as though I were in some extinguishing comet , that was half slumbering in the ashes of its ...
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... things in the town for the voyage : dine : some of the party get drunk ; and to complete their folly , make the watermen , who have to take us back to the ship , drunk also . The wind freshens , the tide is coming up ; rolling in long ...
... things in the town for the voyage : dine : some of the party get drunk ; and to complete their folly , make the watermen , who have to take us back to the ship , drunk also . The wind freshens , the tide is coming up ; rolling in long ...
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... things no idea can be conveyed . And when we had got clear , we were sure to anticipate the worst in fact , all expected the ship was injured irremediably , and that it and all were lost . This impression was evident on all countenances ...
... things no idea can be conveyed . And when we had got clear , we were sure to anticipate the worst in fact , all expected the ship was injured irremediably , and that it and all were lost . This impression was evident on all countenances ...
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