The Island, Or Christian and His Comrades, Volume 236John Hunt, 1823 - 94 pages |
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... shells , their fruits , the only wealth they know ; Their unexploring navy , the canoe ; Their sport , the dashing breakers and the chase ; Their strangest sight , an European face : — Such was the country which these strangers yearned ...
... shells , their fruits , the only wealth they know ; Their unexploring navy , the canoe ; Their sport , the dashing breakers and the chase ; Their strangest sight , an European face : — Such was the country which these strangers yearned ...
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... shell canoe , The ocean Mab , the fairy of the sea , Seems far less fragile , and alas ! more free ! He , when the lightning - winged Tornados sweep The surge , is safe - his port is in the deep- And triumphs o'er the Armadas of mankind ...
... shell canoe , The ocean Mab , the fairy of the sea , Seems far less fragile , and alas ! more free ! He , when the lightning - winged Tornados sweep The surge , is safe - his port is in the deep- And triumphs o'er the Armadas of mankind ...
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... too will be there ; we too recal The memory bright with many a festival , Ere Fiji blew the shell of war , when foes For the first time were wafted in canoes . 30 Alas ! for them the flower of mankind bleeds ; 20 THE ISLAND .
... too will be there ; we too recal The memory bright with many a festival , Ere Fiji blew the shell of war , when foes For the first time were wafted in canoes . 30 Alas ! for them the flower of mankind bleeds ; 20 THE ISLAND .
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... shell ; With all her loves around her on the deep , Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep ; Yet full of life - for through her tropic cheek The blush would make its way , and all but speak ; The sun - born blood suffus'd her neck ...
... shell ; With all her loves around her on the deep , Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep ; Yet full of life - for through her tropic cheek The blush would make its way , and all but speak ; The sun - born blood suffus'd her neck ...
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... shell , * As , far divided from his parent deep , The sea - born infant cries , and will not sleep , Raising his little plaint in vain , to rave For the broad bosom of his nursing wave : The woods drooped darkly , as inclined to rest ...
... shell , * As , far divided from his parent deep , The sea - born infant cries , and will not sleep , Raising his little plaint in vain , to rave For the broad bosom of his nursing wave : The woods drooped darkly , as inclined to rest ...
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Adventure Bay anchor arms bark bayonet beneath billows Bligh boat boatswain bore born bosom bread breast bride cabin canoe Cape Cape Horn CAPTAIN BLIGH cave chace cheer Chief clime clouds crag crew cutlass dark death deck deemed deep drew earth echo eternal exclaimed feelings fire Fletcher Christian flings foam foresail fruit gale gazed GEORGE NICHOLS glory hailed hands HARVARD COLLEGE heard heart hope hour isle land Mariner's Account master mate mutineers native Nature Nature's Nereid Neuha night nought nursling o'er ocean OLD BOND STREET once Otaheite pause pipe plantain plunged proa prow rest rock rose round sail Saturnalia savage scarce seamen seemed shell Shewed ship ship's company shore smile soul spirit spray steep stood surf taught third watch thou toil Tonga Islands Toobonai Torquil voyage wafted watch wave wild wind young
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Page 32 - Highlands' swelling blue Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue, Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace. Long have...
Page 38 - How often we forget all time, when lone, Admiring nature's universal throne, Her woods, her wilds, her waters, the intense Reply of hers to our intelligence ! Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears? No, no : — they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Page 90 - I saw had an inclination to assist me, and as he fed me with shaddock (my lips being quite parched), we explained our wishes to each other by our looks; but this being observed, Martin was removed from me.
Page 13 - The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell canoe, The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea, Seems far less fragile, and, alas ! more frae.
Page 17 - Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams: — The goldless age, where gold disturbs no dreams, Inhabits or inhabited the shore, Till Europe taught them better than before; Bestow'd her customs, and amended theirs, But left her vices also to their heirs.
Page 41 - Sublime Tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand...
Page 87 - I observed that it was rapidly advancing towards the ship. We immediately altered our course, and took in all the sails except the foresail; soon after which it passed within ten yards of the stern, with a rustling noise, but without our feeling the least effect from its being so near.
Page 92 - When they were forcing me out of the ship, I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? He appeared disturbed at my question, and answered with much emotion, "That, — Captain Bligh, — that is the thing ; — I am in hell— I am in hell.
Page 91 - Come, captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat and you must go with them; if you attempt to make the least resistance you will instantly be put to death...
Page 9 - The freedom which can call each grot a home; The general garden, where all steps may roam, Where Nature owns a nation as her child, Exulting in the enjoyment of the wild; Their shells, their fruits, the only...