The WreckersWard, Lock, and Company, 1880 - 402 Seiten |
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A. B. FROST Admiral Chesterfield Admiral's Alice Brent Andrew Rayner beach Beatrice Beatrice's beautiful believed better boat brother brought Calypso Captain Chesterfield Castle caverns cliff clouds coast Coloured countenance crew danger dared dark deep dread Edward Chesterfield eyes fancied father favour fear feelings felt Friars Latimer friends frigate gale hand heard heart Hiram hitherto hour Illustrations Ishmael Brent knew labour Lady Emily lady's land lately light listened looked man's Mark Mark heard Mark's mind Miss Lockwood never night old Andrew pale passed passion person pinnace present Quarries quarrymen reef rest rocks rose round rude sailors scarcely schooner seemed Shag ship shore silent Sir James Lockwood smugglers sound spirit Stephen Rayner stone stone-pits stood storm tempest thought told towers vessel village voice watching waves wild wind wish woman wood words wreck wreckers young
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Seite 143 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Seite 130 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Seite 151 - There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Seite 359 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips. Like man new made.
Seite 138 - The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
Seite 193 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Seite 186 - The very tones in which we spake Had something strange, I could but mark ; The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Oft died the words upon our lips, As, suddenly, from out the fire Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire. And, as their splendour flashed and failed, We thought of wrecks upon the main, — Of ships dismasted, that were hailed And sent no answer back again.