Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life, Том 1H. Colburn, 1846 - 6 страници |
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Страница 57 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Страница 1 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
Страница 94 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire...
Страница 94 - His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, ' Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
Страница 246 - Cod, and then hove to for him to join us — the enemy came down in a very handsome manner, having three American ensigns flying ; when closing with us, he sent down his royal yards. I kept the Shannon's up, expecting the breeze would die away. At...
Страница 248 - Shannon," having picked up some recaptured seamen, had three hundred and thirty. The " Chesapeake " is a fine frigate, and mounts forty-nine guns, eighteens on her main deck, twoand-thirties on her quarter-deck and forecastle. Both ships came out of action in the most beautiful order ; their rigging appearing as perfect as if they had only been exchanging a salute.
Страница 3 - But when he called on Nelly Gray, She made him quite a scoff; And when she saw his wooden legs, Began to take them off! "O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform!
Страница 4 - How happy the soldier, who lives on his pay, And spends half-a-crown out of sixpence a day ; He fears neither justices, warrants, or bums, But pays all his debts with the roll of his drums.
Страница 247 - The firing continued at all the gangways, and between the tops, but in two minutes' time the enemy were driven iword in hand from every post. The American flag was hauled down, and the proud old British Union floated triumphant over it. In another minute they ceased firing from below, and called for quarter. The whole of this service was achieved in fifteen minutes from the commencement of the action.
Страница 246 - ... channels locking in with our fore-rigging. I went forward to ascertain her position, and observing that the enemy were flinching from their guns, I gave orders to prepare for boarding. Our gallant bands appointed to that service immediately rushed in, under their respective officers, upon the enemy's decks, driving every thing before them with irresistible fury. The enemy made a desperate but disorderly resistance. The firing continued at all the gangways, and between the tops, but in two minutes...