The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 10Macmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... sail , " and Mr. Fletcher was off to help to get up a sweepstake or a pool to be won by the lucky drawer of the pilot's number . The only social intercourse Mr. Fletcher had had with any of his fellow passengers besides Miss Henshawe ...
... sail , " and Mr. Fletcher was off to help to get up a sweepstake or a pool to be won by the lucky drawer of the pilot's number . The only social intercourse Mr. Fletcher had had with any of his fellow passengers besides Miss Henshawe ...
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... SAILING SHIP. ened to assure her that Drummond was not a " carpet - beggar , " was not only free from any of the political intrigue implied under that baleful title , but was a wealthy northern capitalist simply seeking invest- ment ...
... SAILING SHIP. ened to assure her that Drummond was not a " carpet - beggar , " was not only free from any of the political intrigue implied under that baleful title , but was a wealthy northern capitalist simply seeking invest- ment ...
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... sailing qualities , they were very much more weatherly and drier in a gale of wind . The word clipper , on the other hand , to a very great extent explains itself . Young , in his dictionary of marine terms , tells us that it is " a ...
... sailing qualities , they were very much more weatherly and drier in a gale of wind . The word clipper , on the other hand , to a very great extent explains itself . Young , in his dictionary of marine terms , tells us that it is " a ...
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THE " THERMOPYLE , " 1869 , FASTEST SAILING SHIP IN THE World . THE " LIVERPOOL , " 3,330 NET REGISTER , LARGEST. at ... sailors who go about much from port to port will frequently be ren- dered pensive by the sight of one of the most ...
THE " THERMOPYLE , " 1869 , FASTEST SAILING SHIP IN THE World . THE " LIVERPOOL , " 3,330 NET REGISTER , LARGEST. at ... sailors who go about much from port to port will frequently be ren- dered pensive by the sight of one of the most ...
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... sail , the Sir Lancelot spread upwards of 46,000 square feet of canvas ; perhaps the greatest area which was ever shown by any full - rigged ship . To her belongs the honour of having accomplished the swiftest passage on record of any ...
... sail , the Sir Lancelot spread upwards of 46,000 square feet of canvas ; perhaps the greatest area which was ever shown by any full - rigged ship . To her belongs the honour of having accomplished the swiftest passage on record of any ...
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Page 310 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 158 - Cordelia, that never chang'd word with each other in the Original. This renders Cordelia's Indifference and her Father's Passion in the first Scene probable. It likewise gives Countenance to Edgar's Disguise, making that a generous Design that was before a poor Shift to save his Life.
Page 347 - And now, beloved Stowey! I behold Thy church-tower, and, methinks, the four huge elms Clustering, which mark the mansion of my friend; And close behind them, hidden from my view, Is my own lowly cottage, where my babe And my babe's mother dwell in peace!
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Page 534 - We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town; We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down. Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need, Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to iead.
Page 164 - The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures.
Page 519 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 161 - A king, aye, every inch a king, Such Barry doth appear; But Garrick's quite a different thing — He's every inch King Lear.
Page 164 - Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily.
Page 459 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for foxhunters and bear abundance of ruddy complexioned children.