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Alamo Amyas Anto Antonio Ariel Ayacanora Battle of Trafalgar beautiful boat brave brother Caliban called canoes Charles Lamb charm command Communipaw daughter dear Discase Duke of Milan dukedom Dutch enemy Enter eyes Father Marquette fear Ferd Ferdinand fire fleet give Gonza Gonzalo Gordon Stevenson Halftone hand Hardy hath head hear heart hospital human Indians Irving island Jungfrau Katherine Maxey King of Naples lady land living look lord magic master means Mexicans Mira Miranda Miss Nightingale monster mountains mouth Nelson nettle never night Oloffe Peter Stuyvesant pipe play pr'ythee Pros Prospero river sail Saint Nicholas scene Sebas Sebastian Shakespeare ship shore soldiers Spaniards speak spirit Steph Stephano story strange swords Sycorax tell Tempest thee thing thou thought trees Trin Trinculo Victory voyage WASHINGTON IRVING wind word
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 285 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
الصفحة 37 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress...
الصفحة 431 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want, Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults As you from crimes would pardon'd be Let your indulgence set me free.
الصفحة 415 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
الصفحة 377 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
الصفحة 415 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel : My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
الصفحة 262 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
الصفحة 391 - Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
الصفحة 231 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may his blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully!
الصفحة 38 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...