Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War1869 - 136 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... dark blue ocean , and whose inhabitants are sheltered from the keen blasts of winter by high and wood - clad hills . Twenty years have scarcely passed away ere the little sequestered town of Luscombe , two hundred miles from the ...
... dark blue ocean , and whose inhabitants are sheltered from the keen blasts of winter by high and wood - clad hills . Twenty years have scarcely passed away ere the little sequestered town of Luscombe , two hundred miles from the ...
الصفحة viii
... dark brown rocks - beneath the high and beetling cliffs the railway steams onwards as an arrow's flight ; and that which but yesterday was a place little known and little sought for , save by lovers of Nature's beauty and invalids , is ...
... dark brown rocks - beneath the high and beetling cliffs the railway steams onwards as an arrow's flight ; and that which but yesterday was a place little known and little sought for , save by lovers of Nature's beauty and invalids , is ...
الصفحة 17
... dark and bleak December , closely approach- ing the festive season of the year when all hearts , all minds are open to the call of charity and generous benevolent acts - that day of joy when Christ was born , to redeem the sins of the ...
... dark and bleak December , closely approach- ing the festive season of the year when all hearts , all minds are open to the call of charity and generous benevolent acts - that day of joy when Christ was born , to redeem the sins of the ...
الصفحة 61
... He was in a little dark hole , and the sight before him , and seen by a dim and dirty lantern , was an armed soldier and a ruffian . He threw off his night- cap , rubbed his eyes , stared , stuttered , THE CRUISE . 61.
... He was in a little dark hole , and the sight before him , and seen by a dim and dirty lantern , was an armed soldier and a ruffian . He threw off his night- cap , rubbed his eyes , stared , stuttered , THE CRUISE . 61.
الصفحة 79
... dark , and the hands were turned up to take in a third reef , while the topsail yards were down and the men out on them . The ship rolled and pitched too a good deal , and the poor fellow at the lee gangway lost his footing and fell ...
... dark , and the hands were turned up to take in a third reef , while the topsail yards were down and the men out on them . The ship rolled and pitched too a good deal , and the poor fellow at the lee gangway lost his footing and fell ...
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Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War <span dir=ltr>Herbert Byng Hall</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 1855 |
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الصفحة 112 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
الصفحة 65 - The startled waves leap over it ; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane. The sea-bird wheeling round it, with the din Of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded and maddened by the light within, Dashes himself against the glare, and dies.
الصفحة 83 - The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. 10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.
الصفحة 101 - Within himself, from more to more ; Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
الصفحة 65 - And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells, And ever joyful, as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells.
الصفحة 72 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
الصفحة 65 - Not one alone ; from each projecting cape And perilous reef along the ocean's verge, Starts into life a dim, gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge.
الصفحة 98 - A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, is God in his holy habitation.
الصفحة 19 - Tis o'er — thou art a man ! — The struggle and the tempest both begin, Where he who faints must fail— he fight who can, A victory to win. Say, toilest thou for gold / Will all that earth can give of drossy hues Compensate for that land of love foretold, Which mammon makes thee lose ? Or, waitest thou for power ? A proud ambition, trifler, doth thee raise ! — To be the gilded bauble of the hour, That...
الصفحة iv - Fight onwards to the breach, brave heart ! Where victory o'er Life is won ; To mourn is but the coward's part, Thou hast the warrior's now begun : Pour out thy last, best, ruddiest drop, But 'till thy wild pulsation stop, Fight on, brave heart, fight on ! The...