Paul Jones : a Romance, Volym 3Oliver & Boyd, 1826 |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 78
Sida 2
... brave sight to see a man kneeling at their apron- strings , with the foulness of seven unwashen murders on his hands . An enemy's blood on a seaman's jacket is an embroidery new in the French marine , and ony rags will be worship- ped ...
... brave sight to see a man kneeling at their apron- strings , with the foulness of seven unwashen murders on his hands . An enemy's blood on a seaman's jacket is an embroidery new in the French marine , and ony rags will be worship- ped ...
Sida 3
... brave hearts of the age . Ah ! they will so fondle you and follow you , and kiss you and caress you , that you will have no other wish all your days but to kill English to oblige the debonnaire dames . " — " Atweel , " said the ...
... brave hearts of the age . Ah ! they will so fondle you and follow you , and kiss you and caress you , that you will have no other wish all your days but to kill English to oblige the debonnaire dames . " — " Atweel , " said the ...
Sida 10
... brave names in the district - ballads those of Paul Jones , Ricot , and Landais . To Paul , fiery by nature , incensed at the insolence of his captains , and stung by the praises which the people bestowed on them , this poetic ...
... brave names in the district - ballads those of Paul Jones , Ricot , and Landais . To Paul , fiery by nature , incensed at the insolence of his captains , and stung by the praises which the people bestowed on them , this poetic ...
Sida 11
... bravery the minstrel was ascribing the whole glory of the victory , when he received a blow from Paul's sheathed sword , which silenced and prostrated him at one and the same moment ; while his harp , upon which he fell , sent from its ...
... bravery the minstrel was ascribing the whole glory of the victory , when he received a blow from Paul's sheathed sword , which silenced and prostrated him at one and the same moment ; while his harp , upon which he fell , sent from its ...
Sida 14
... brave Cheva- lier Paul Jones ! -most of your puddle - blooded islanders would have grown sulky had I served them so . But wits , Chevalier , understand one another , wit answered by wit is de Chamont's motto . You have not breakfasted ...
... brave Cheva- lier Paul Jones ! -most of your puddle - blooded islanders would have grown sulky had I served them so . But wits , Chevalier , understand one another , wit answered by wit is de Chamont's motto . You have not breakfasted ...
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Vanliga ord och fraser
Admiral American answered armed army battle beauty blood bonnie bosom bowed brave bravery bridle brow Caledonia cannon carronades Chevalier Chevalier Paul citizen command court dames deck deeds desert dropt Dutchess Empress enemy England English exclaimed eyes face Fayette feet fierce fight fire frae France freedom gallant Galwegian ground gude guillotine hand head heard heart honour horse huntress King la Fayette lady land liberty lips look Lord Dalveen Lord Thomas Louis Louis of Bourbon Macgubb maritime maun Mull native nature never noble Oczakow Oriflame Paul Jones Paul's pistols Prince Nassau proud islanders replied Paul Ricot rifle Russian savage Scotland Scottish seemed ship shot shouted side Silas sloop smile soldier speak spirit spoke stood Suwarrow sword thee thine thou art tree Turkish valley victory Vizier voice warrior warrow wild wilderness wind woods words Wulik young
Populära avsnitt
Sida 182 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold.
Sida 152 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Sida 62 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Sida 94 - Amidst the strife of fratricidal foes ; Her birth-star was the light of burning plains ;* Her baptism is the weight of blood that flows From kindred hearts — the blood of British veins— And famine tracks her steps, and pestilential pains.
Sida 92 - ... youthful lawbreaker to suffer a penalty in requital for the harm which he has inflicted, through his action, to both the legal order and to the victim; rather it consists in saving the juvenile delinquent from himself, in providing him with that power of moral restraint which he lacks, in protecting him for his own sake as well as for the sake...
Sida 48 - David devoted the flesh of the monster to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field. The Philistine scorned and bullied him, stamped mightily with both his feet, and at length fell like a mass of clay, affording a splendid termination to the piece. And then the virgins sang : ' Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.
Sida 88 - I am of the left bank myself:— are ye a left-bank man, my friend ?"—" Thou uncivilized cub," said a brother warrior, " didst thou not hear that he was nursed on the Delaware,— the princely Delaware, whose sons are the saviours of the thirteen States ?—I am from the bank of the stream myself, else I had forborne my boast."—
Sida 90 - England be cursed continually with this hardness !" exclaimed a wild warrior from the back-settlements, who, nursed when a child by the Indians, and living by the rifle and the trap, had caught something of the inflated tone of the native tribes; " may the heart of England never yield, may it insult, injure, and oppress us, till all remembrance of descent is effaced in our breasts. The wand of peace is...
Sida 85 - I be flogged then with a thong from the hide of John Bull's back !"—" Let us scalp them, man and mother's son," said a half-blood from the sources of the Delaware; " the warriors of my mother's tribe get three dollars each for the scalps of Englishmen."—" Thou art a savage, and deservest not to live in a free State...