The Jack O'Lantern; (le Feu-follet;) Or, The PrivateerTauchnitz, 1843 - 435 pages |
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... Andrea Barrofaldi , the vice - governor , was a very different sort of person from his friend the podestà . Although little more acquainted with the world by practice , the vice - governor was deeply read in books , owing his situation ...
... Andrea Barrofaldi , the vice - governor , was a very different sort of person from his friend the podestà . Although little more acquainted with the world by practice , the vice - governor was deeply read in books , owing his situation ...
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... Andrea Barrofaldi , however , had thrown no political summerset , and had consequently been in- ducted into his present office without even the sentimental profes- sion of never having asked for it . The situation had been given to him ...
... Andrea Barrofaldi , however , had thrown no political summerset , and had consequently been in- ducted into his present office without even the sentimental profes- sion of never having asked for it . The situation had been given to him ...
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... Andrea Barro- faldi , would at once have detected did not belong to the manly simplicity of the English wardrobe ... Barrofaldi , the latter opened the discourse . " They tell me that we have the honour to receive into our little ...
... Andrea Barro- faldi , would at once have detected did not belong to the manly simplicity of the English wardrobe ... Barrofaldi , the latter opened the discourse . " They tell me that we have the honour to receive into our little ...
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... Barrofaldi , writing the name in a manner to show that it was not the first time he had heard it ; " ze Ving - y ... Andrea Barrofaldi mused , in silence , near a minute . During this interval , he was thinking of the improbability ...
... Barrofaldi , writing the name in a manner to show that it was not the first time he had heard it ; " ze Ving - y ... Andrea Barrofaldi mused , in silence , near a minute . During this interval , he was thinking of the improbability ...
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... Andrea Barrofaldi , " since when have you English adopted the rig of the lugger ? It is an unusual craft for so great a naval nation , they tell me . " - you su- " Bah ! I see how it is , Signor Vice - governatore , spect me of being a ...
... Andrea Barrofaldi , " since when have you English adopted the rig of the lugger ? It is an unusual craft for so great a naval nation , they tell me . " - you su- " Bah ! I see how it is , Signor Vice - governatore , spect me of being a ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Jack O'lantern: (Le Feu-follet) Or, The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1845 |
The Jack O'Lantern: (Le Feu-follet;) Or, the Privateer, Volume 1 James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1842 |
The Jack O' Lantern; (Le Feu-follet;) Or, The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1843 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
a-head admiral anchor Andrea Barrofaldi appearance boat breeze cabin called canvass Capitano Capri Captain Cuffe Captain Rule Caraccioli Carlo Giuntotardi carronades chase circumstances Clinch coast commander course craft crew deck duty eccellenza Elba Elbans enemy English escape Etooelle exclaimed eyes favour feeling felt felucca Feu-Follet Few-Folly fire followed forecastle French Frenchman frigate Ghita girl Griffin guns hand hauled heard heart honour hour Ischia island Italian Ithuel Jack O'Lantern judge-advocate land Le Feu-Follet lieutenant light look lugger Lyon manner mariners Maso matter mind minutes Monsieur Yvard Naples Nelson never night officer passed podestà port Porto Ferrajo prisoner Proserpine Raoul Yvard render Ringdove rocks sail seamen seen serpine ship shore side Signor Vice-governatore Sir Frederick Sir Smees smile soon stand stranger tell Terpsichore thee thing thou thought truth vessel vice-governor Ving-y-Ving Vito Viti Winchester wind wish yawl young
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Page 184 - If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast; If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope, I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 290 - WHITE as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity.
Page 358 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 169 - A justice of the peace, for the time being, They bow to, but may turn him out next year ; They reverence their priest, but disagreeing In price or creed, dismiss him without fear ; They have a natural talent for foreseeing And knowing all things ; — and should PAKK appear From his long tour in Africa, to show The Niger's source, they 'd meet him with — We know.
Page 1 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.