Cruising in the Last WarT. B. Peterson, 1850 |
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ahead Alder answered astern began boat boatswain bosom bowsprit breeze brig British ensign broadside cabin canvass Captain Drew carronade chase cheer clouds coast craft crew cried cutlasses danger dark dashed deck deep enemy escape excitement eyes fear fell felucca fire flash fleet forecastle foresail frigate gale gallant gazing Gibraltar glance gloom half hand heard heart hope horizon hour hull Huzza instant Isabel knew Krooman larboard leeward lieutenant light look mainsail man-of-war masts merchantman minutes never nigger night officer once passed pause Peter Careful pirates port quarter quarter-master rapidly ratlin replied rigging roar rose sail scarcely scene schooner seemed seen ship shot shouted side sight silence sloop smoke soon spars spoke spray squall stood strange stranger suddenly Taffrail tempest Thornton thought thundered turned vessel voice watch waves whole wild wind windward words wounded Yankee
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第117页 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
第70页 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
第9页 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
第84页 - Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!" And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array; And on the tossing sea of steel To and fro the standards reel, And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away.
第119页 - WHITE as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity. Her anchor parts ; but still her snowy sail Attracts our eye amidst the rudest gale : Though every wave she climbs divides us more, The heart still follows from the loneliest shore.
第95页 - I fear, Sir," said the messenger, shaking his head sadly, " that he cannot live till morning." "And I have been lying idle here!" I exclaimed, with remorse. " Lead me to him." " He is delirious, but at the intervals of lunacy he asks for you, Sir," and as the man spoke, we stood beside the bed of the boy.
第96页 - I have nothing to ask — I don't want to live — only, if it's possible, let me be buried by my mother — you will find the name of the place and all about it in my trunk." " Anything, everything, my poor lad,
第50页 - Then issues forth the storm with sudden burst, And hurls the whole precipitated air, Down in a torrent.
第94页 - ... strife, the hardships of my early life, and a thousand other things, mingled together as figures in a phantasmagoria. Suddenly a hand was laid on my shoulder, and, starting up, I beheld the surgeon's mate. " Little Dick, sir, is dying,
第151页 - Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!