The Adventures of Roderick RandomNavarre Society., 1883 - 352 páginas |
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Página 343 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 121 - ... deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every convenience necessary for people in that helpless condition.
Página 151 - ... from his own dignity as to offer such assistance unasked ; for I may venture to affirm, that by this time the demon of discord, with her sooty wings, had breathed her influence upon our counsels ; and it might be said of these great men (I hope they will pardon the comparison), as of Caesar and Pompey, the one could not brook a superior, and the other was impatient of an equal : so that, between the pride of one, and insolence of another, the enterprise miscarried, according to the proverb, —...
Página 5 - I was at length inured to adversity, and emboldened to undertakings far above my years. I was often inhumanly scourged for crimes I did not commit, because, having the character of a vagabond in the village, every piece of mischief, whose author lay unknown, was charged on me.
Página 106 - In the midst of this hellish crew, I was subjected to the tyranny of a barbarian, who imposed upon me tasks that I could not possibly perform, and then punished my incapacity with the utmost rigour and inhumanity. I was often whipped into a swoon, and lashed out of it, during which miserable intervals I was robbed by my fellow-prisoners of every thing about me, even to my cap, shoes, and stockings : I was not only destitute of necessaries, but even of food, so that my wretchedness was extreme.
Página 40 - I could not help admiring the extraordinary make of this man of war : he was about five feet and three inches high, sixteen inches of which went to his face and long scraggy neck...
Página 157 - ... his hair flowed upon his shoulders in ringlets, tied behind with a ribbon. His coat, consisting of pink-coloured silk lined with white, by the elegance of the cut retired backward, as it were to discover a white satin waistcoat embroidered with gold, unbuttoned at the upper part to display a brooch set with garnets, that glittered in the breast of his shirt, which was of the finest cambric, edged with right Mechlin.
Página 182 - Glide swift through all my vital frame ! For while I gaze, my bosom glows, My blood in tides impetuous flows ; Hope, fear, and joy alternate roll, And floods of transport whelm my soul ! My fait'ring tongue attempts in vain. In soothing murmurs to complain; My tongue some secret magic ties, My murmurs sink in broken sighs...
Página 113 - I complained bitterly of this robbery to the midshipman on deck, telling him at the same time that unless my hurts were dressed I should bleed to death. But compassion was a weakness of which no man could justly accuse this person, who, squirting a mouthful of dissolved tobacco upon me through the gratings, told me " I was a mutinous dog, and that I might die and be d — d.