The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations, Edição 76,Volume 9H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1829 |
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Página 167 - ... the spray dashed o'er the funnels, . And down the deck in runnels; And the rushing water soaks all, From the seamen in the fo'ksal To the stokers, whose black faces Peer out of their bed-places; And the captain he was bawling, And the sailors pulling, hauling; And the quarter-deck tarpauling Was shivered in the squalling; And the passengers awaken, Most pitifully shaken; And the steward jumps up, and hastens For the necessary basins.
Página 169 - And when, its force expended, The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me.
Página 262 - Diddloff , on his dexter side. Diddloff is a dandy who would die of a rose in aromatic pain ; he had tried to have me assassinated three times in the course of the negotiation : but of course we were friends in public, and saluted each other in the most cordial and charming manner.
Página 123 - the peasant girls with dark blue eyes" of the Rhine — the brown-faced, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, dirty wenches ! Think of " filling high a cup of Samian wine ; " small beer is nectar compared to it, and Byron himself always drank gin. That man never wrote from his heart. He got up rapture and enthusiasm with an eye to the public...
Página 266 - What is it to be a gentleman ?" says he ; " is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner...
Página 199 - Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Página 199 - I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, "And the sun stood still . . . and hasted not to go down about a whole day