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...e taken down shall be scratched out. I have the great misfortune not to be able to read and write, and I am speaking my true and faithful account of t... ...ne with the least to say for himself. I qualify it, because, besides being able to read and write like a Quarter-master, he had always one most excell... ...e me. “Here you are,” I thought to myself, “good scholars and good livers; able to read what you like, able to write what you like, able to eat and dr... ...and I drew “Island.” So did Tom Packer. So of course, did four more of our rank and file. When this was settled, verbal instructions were given to all... ...his voice; and we made good way, and with little noise. There was always a seaman forward on the raft, keeping a bright look-out. Suddenly, in the ful... ...oat, Captain Maryon, brave and bold. At the helm of the third boat, an old seaman, with determination carved into his watchful face, like the figure-h... ...ptain—with the women and children clustering round him, and the men of all ranks grouped outside them, and all listening—stood telling how the Expedit... ...” says Lieutenant Linderwood. “Stand out, my friend!” I stood out from the ranks, and Miss Maryon and Captain Carton came up to me. “Dear Davis,” says...

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...inarily occupy that position in regard to social influence which could en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose soci... ...es which palsy him, that he cannot deal with them effectually . If he were able really to pierce the haze which so often envelops, even to himself, hi... ...e measured by two separate questions. A. What is the problem, and of what rank in dignity or in use, which the essay undertakes? And next, that point... ...by me as a sufficient ground for writing upon it, unless I believed myself able to offer some considerable nov- elty. Generally I claim (not arrogantl... ... far higher class of compositions included in the American col- lection, I rank The Confessions of an Opium Eater, and also (but more emphatically) th... ...hardly prevent the reader from re- ceiving an impression as of some higher rank than did really 18 Thomas de Quincey belong to my family. And this im... ...ate branches of his 271 Autobiographic Sketches profession—navigation and seamanship, qualifications which are not very often united. After the death... ...a character to maintain with the sailors: he was respected equally for his seamanship and his shipmanship. 6 By the way, when it is considered that o... ...anish shipping and maritime towns was that which I have here retained. 6 “Seamanship and shipmanship”—These are two functions of a sailor seldom, sep...

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... passage window.’ I could only utter a vain wish that I had been there and able to fight for him, and I attacked Griff on the subject on the first opp... ...s. One evening we were treated to a box at the pan- tomime, and even I was able to go to it. We put our young sailor and our sister in the forefront, ... ...d though the consequence and importance de- rived from being raised to the ranks of the Squirearchy were agreeable, they were a dear purchase at the c... ...he loss of intercourse with the acquaintance whom separation raised to the rank of intimate friends, even her misgivings as to butchers, bak- ers, and... ...e been very handsome if two side-lights had not been obscured by the two T ables of the Law, with the royal arms on the top of the first table, and ov... ... haunted houses. And at home my father forbade any further mention of such rank folly and deception. The inner mullion chamber was turned into a lumbe... ...s cramped life, and the scowls of his fellows; and he knew himself to have seaman- ship enough to rise quickly, even if he could not secure a mate’s b...

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...air of youth in particu- lar (as it appealed to the sentiment of pity in our visitors) to be a source of profit. Others again enjoyed some ac- quainta... ...ith indifference; and the initials would at least suggest to her my noble birth. I thought it better to suggest: I felt that mystery was my stock-in-t... ... convey to each of them the priceless conso- lation of her sympathy. Y ou have given me alms; and more than alms—hope; and while you were absent I was... ..., Johnny—me comprong.’ Then Goguelat shook hands with me, embraced me again, and I went out of the room sobbing like an infant. How often have I not s... ...ay, not a little. We learned you were under orders for the Peninsula, to fight the English; then that you had been commissioned for a piece of bravery... ...building. I had never the heart to look for any length of time—the thought that I must make the descent in person some dark night robbing me of breath... ...e one else should make the trial, they had better still why it should not be themselves. Others, again, condemned the whole idea as insane; among thes... ...tirely free; and he as good as defied the boldest and strongest to succeed. We were relieved from this dead-lock by our sergeant-major of dragoons. ‘C...

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...aring his troubled breathing, seeing his torn and disheveled clothes, his rank beard, and knowing he was ill. I remembered the dream, the ship with ... ... her eyes. And it oc- curred to me that Alcaeus and I would never again be able to exchange notes, those hasty, affectionate scribbles. Would he ever... ...slope, what it is that Alcaeus hopes to find, a new life? I shall not be able to sleep indoors tonight. My bed will have to be under the trees. Per... ...eath the trees...all day alone. I have hated loneliness and yet I must be able to rest and get away from responsibilities, to welcome the gods of tr... ... used to light his way to freedom.” P His flames and heat are fuel For seaman’s muscles, his sea eyes, SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 125 Devil of la...

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...te has sent her bravest to the war, And multitudes pressed forward to that rank, Men with sad weeping wives and little ones. That other name—O Father!... ...mong the ruins grey, And like a phantom in fantastic play She wanders with rank weeds stuck on her brow, Over grass-hidden caves and turret-tops, Hers... ...m the bump of wonder: That’s my business, and there’s my tale. Fashion and rank all praised the professor: Ay! and I’ve had my smile from the Queen: B... ...d sew, I needn’t pay half my victuals for you. A man for himself should be able to scratch, But tickling’s a luxury:—love, indeed! Love burns as long ... ...ore than we. XXVII —So push you out of harbour in small craft, With little seamanship; and comes a gale, The world will laugh, the world has often lau... ... for the historic word on Wrecks. 407 TRAFALGAR DAY He leads: we hear our Seaman’s call In the roll of battles won; For he is Britain’s Admiral Till ... ...k; and must we fight, Our Nelson be our battle-cry! He leads: we hear our Seaman’s call In the roll of battles won; For he is Britain’s Admiral Till ...

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...and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of society, would have dared to make some fun for the... ...te- faced women. It was as much as he could do to play, and some of his hearers were scarce able to sit; yet they had crawled from their bunks at the ... ...were keeping up what heart they could in company. Singing was their refuge from discomfort- able thoughts and sensations. One piped, in feeble tones, ... ...’ said he; ‘but I can do a turn yet.’ And the son to whom he was going, I asked, was he not able to support him? ‘Oh yes,’ he replied. ‘But I’m never ... ...ed a little and moaned aloud. We ran to the rails. An elderly man, but whether passenger or seaman it was impossible in the dark- ness to determine, l... ..., found Blackwood; a neat, bright, dapper, Glasgow-looking man, with a bead of an eye and a rank twang in his speech. I forget who was with him, but t... ...kwood, Jones and the bo’s’un were now engaged in talk. This last was a gruff, cruel-looking seaman, who must have passed near half a century upon the ... ... One, a mason himself, believed I was a mason; several, and among these at least one of the seaman, judged me to be a petty officer in the American na... ... in a bed; and if the worst befell, you would instantly and mysteriously disappear from the ranks of mankind. I have usually found such stories corres...

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... two sons who succeeded him. Sir George Esmond married, rather beneath the rank that a person of his name and honor might aspire to, the daughter of T... ...is appetite was, Mr. Wycherley said, he ended by swallowing that fly-blown rank old morsel his cousin. There were endless jokes and lampoons about thi... ...RE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORATION OF KING JAMES II. NOT HA VING BEEN ABLE TO SLEEP, for thinking of some lines for eels which he had placed the ... ...tment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Major- General.* *To have this rank of Marquis restored in the family had always been my Lady Viscountess’... ... the apprehen- sion of one or the other considerable, it was deemed advis- able that they should separate; and the priest betook himself to other plac... ...d the Doctor. “’Tis true they are a comfort and a help to him when attain- able, and to be administered with hope of good. But in a case where the lif... ...eauty her reign had ended, and the days of her love were over? What does a seaman do in a storm if mast and rudder are carried away? He ships a juryma...

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..., or about 730 years after the deluge, as Forster says, though I have not been able to find any corroborative evidence that Moses was a part of any ex... ...art of any expedition sent out by Sesostris. While the best proofs that we are able to recover from history give the, Phoenicians the credit of being ... ...the true cause of the tides, nor was such expectation disappointed. He was not able to find the tin mines of Britain; but continuing his voyage northw... ... it is more than probable that some of the hardy spirits joined the Crusaders' ranks, leaving their Vinland Home to fight for the Holy Sepulchre. The ... ...rinning from her ports, a skeleton captain walking her bridge, the corpse of a seaman on the lookout, and a ghost taking his trick at the wheel. She i... ..., by name Bernard Fokke, of the seventeenth century. He was a reckless, daring seaman who, that he might carry the more sail in a high wind, cased his... ... he has still to go. Every rock in the ocean is laid down on the maps, and the seaman knows exactly what course to take to secure the safety of his ve... ...possessed regular institutes of religion, and which preserving distinctions of rank were measurably civilized, recognized social bonds, practised agri... ...aders, who opened a fire with muskets, and cannons that tore great gaps in the ranks of the Indians, and was followed by a slaughter that has few para...

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... portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died 8 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater upon t... ...he public eye. It is true, that few of this class are qualified to act as ‘able’ sea- men: but at all times, and especially during war, only a small p... ...red landsmen. John Williams, however, who had been occasionally rated as a seaman on board of various Indiamen, &c., was probably a very accomplished ... ...rted, occupied (as often hap- pens in families of humble pretensions as to rank) a sort of sisterly place in her relation to her mistress. A great dem... ...g all three to- gether with the baby locked in sleep, still how unaccount- able was this utter—utter silence! Most naturally at this moment something ... ...the front there would be no such chance; and there would also be consider- able delay in the process of breaking open the door. A brick wall, nine or ... ... will sell an edition or so. This being the case, it being certain that no rank will reprieve a bad writer from final condemnation, the sycophantic gl...

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...under before it reached them. However, by the light of a lanthorn, which a seaman handed through the skylight of the round house to the deck, Mr. Meri... ..., but was so much benumbed that he was on the point of quitting it, when a seaman, who had already gained a footing, extended his hand, and assisted h... ...nd. When he is more vivacious, he is frank with me; he is quite the agree able rattle. I know what human nature is,—who better? Well! He had a little... ...Long doubtful of the efficacy of such assistance in any case whatever, and able to recall but one, within his whole individual knowledge, in which he ... ...bly Rooms of our watering place now, red hot cannon balls are less improb able. Sometimes, a misguided wanderer of a Ventriloquist, or an Infant Phen... ...e French. They are very popular, and very cheap. The sea bathing—which may rank as the most favoured daylight entertainment, inasmuch as the French vi... ...nd pretty, by good sense and good taste, that is a practical lesson to any rank of society in a whole island we could mention. The oddest feature of t... ...blished; from the original one where a smooth male and female Pole of high rank are coming at the observer with their arms a kimbo, to the Ratcatcher’...

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... of other blessings too mighty to be valued, not merely as transcending in rank and dignity all other constituents of happiness, but for a reason far ... ...d the fears, or the simple curiosity of the aristocracy, that she was thus able to display not unfrequently a disinterestedness and a generos- ity, wh... ...ith disappointment, as it may be supposed to act upon the poor shipwrecked seaman, alone and upon a desolate coast, straining his sight for ever to th... ...sible (though, for reasons well known to me, in the highest degree improb- able) that Agnes might have returned by a by-path, which, leading through a... ...r witnessed, and so harrowing to the feelings, that all who could by their rank venture upon such an irregularity, absented themselves during the crit... ...my wife stood foremost. For, and that was fortunate, she had found herself able, without violence to her own sincerest opinions in the case, to offer ... ...e mat- ter; nor, in fact, had any other official person, whatever were his rank, except the supreme one; and to him I neither had 35 Thomas de Quince...

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...t’s only once in the twelvemonth!’ And that was the end of him; the insult rankled in his mind; and he retired to rest. He is a fish- curer, a man ove... ... nothing more has been done to the poles; and I can’t tell when I shall be able to leave, not for a fortnight yet, I fear, at the earliest, for the wi... ...ing fishy at the far end where the cross wall is building; but till we are able to get along, all speculation is vain. I am so sleepy I am writing non... ...ed to me for the thing to ripen in. When I am a very old and very respect- able citizen with white hair and bland manners and a gold watch, I shall he... ...ink, every afternoon, without fail. I have not written much; but, like the seaman’s parrot in the tale, I have thought a deal. Y ou have never, by the... ...e question of method. The ‘brown foreground,’ ‘old mastery,’ and the like, ranking with villanelles, as technical sports and pastimes. Real art, 234 ... ...er: TO W. E. HENLEY [HYERES, NOVEMBER 1883] MY DEAR LAD, – … Of course, my seamanship is jimmy: did I not beseech you I know not how often to find me ... ...y faults: both deadly. To sink into what my forefathers would have called ‘rank con- formity,’ and to pour forth cheap replicas, upon the one hand; up...

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...ned clasp- ing Miss T ox to his heart, with an energy of action in remark- able opposition to his disconcerted face, while that poor lady trickled slo... ...resh-coloured face, at the next table (who would give a handsome sum to be able to rise and go away, but cannot do it) to the verge of madness, by ane... ...tatue way himself, was well enough pleased to see his handsome wife immov- able and proud and cold. Her deportment being always el- egant and graceful... ... is as vulnerable as the bare breast to steel; and such tormenting festers rankle there, as follow on no other wounds, no, though dealt with the maile... ...on his part, of something that had passed between herself and her husband, rankled and smarted in her haughty breast, like a poisoned arrow. ‘I do not... ...im as if he’ d been a admiral—that lad, along with the second-mate and one seaman, was left, of all the beatin’ hearts that went aboard that ship, the... ...s the chart (for there warn’t no touching nowhere), and on that voyage the seaman as was picked up with him died. But he was spared, and—’ The Captain... ..., ‘you shall shape your own course. W otever course you take, is plain and seamanlike, I’m wery sure.’ ‘Captain Gills,’ said Mr T oots, ‘you’re extrem... ...te and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! You know how you came here to-ni...

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...o sort of use to him until it was filled up from the outside. He was not able to invent the triflingest little thing with it. He had not a shadow of... ...and evil—he had to get the idea from the outside . Neither he nor Eve was able to originate the idea that it was im modest to go naked; the knowledg... ...that poor old creature to per Mark T wain 13 ish. He would not have been able to sleep, for thinking of it. O.M. What was his state of mind on his w... ...hing as fine as that, as exalted as that. Could you have remained in those ranks and gone down to your death in that unflinching way? What Is Man and... ...k them to die for duty’s sake, and not two dozen of them would stay in the ranks to the end? Y.M. Yes, I know that. O.M. But your train them, and pu... ...all his waking hours, the human being is under training. In the very first rank of his trainers stands association. It is his human environment which ... ...ys and soldier talk and generalship and general ways and general talk, and seaman ship and sailor ways and sailor talk. Maybe he did all these things... ...ss; I do not remember that any Nelson, or Drake, or Cook ever examined his seamanship and said it showed profound and accurate familiarity with that a... ...would this same captain be competent to sit in judgment upon Shakespeare’s seamanship—considering the changes in ships and ship talk that have necessa...

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... the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able hopes. They were unjustifiable, but who was to tell them that? I mean ... ... achievement in that field where he is a master. Happily, he will never be able to claim com- pleteness; and, were he to confess to it in a moment of ... ...t the real knowledge of matters infinitely more profound than any conceiv- able scheme of creation is with the dead alone. That is why our talk about ... ... the most distinguished amongst his literary countrymen have conferred the rank of Prince of Prose. Never has a dignity been better borne. M. Anatole ... ...his mind from common errors and current supersti- tions befits the exalted rank he holds in the Com- monwealth of Literature. It is just to suppose th... ...me. He has the knowledge of simple hearts. Long Tom Coffin is a monumental seaman with the individuality of life and the significance of a type. It is... ...itories of the Serenissime Republic, which made of it a Power of the first rank for a time, was not accomplished by force. It was not the conse- quenc... ...r a period of probation and training I had imposed upon myself as ordinary seaman on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first... ...- ing out a deliberate plan of making out of myself, in the first place, a seaman worthy of the service, good enough to work by the side of the men wi...

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...ned and 10 Thackeray coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners),—the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departin... ...seen, three nights in the week at least, in the narrow, charming, comfort- able little theatre. Godfrey had the box. He was strolling, list- lessly, e... ...se, Buga- boo, out of Smithereens, by Fadladeen, which ran into the French ranks at Salamanca, with poor Jack Clonakilty, of the 13th, dead, on the to... ...ole-star of the existence of his gallant father! In this secluded retreat, rank and wealth almost boundless found the widow and her boy. The seventeen... ...n Bowie contemplated: the boldest and most daring perhaps ever imagined by seaman. It is this which has been so wrongly described by European annalist... ...h- ington forbade its publication; and it was but lately that the faithful seaman told it to me, his grandson, on his hundred- and-fifteenth birthday.... ...ly so reckliss, is a careworn mann! and yet so it is. “Imprymus. I’ve been ableged to get up all the ecomplishments at double quick, & to apply myself... ... don’t eat like a commoner. He says I’m gettn on very well—soon I shall be able to inwite people to brekfst, like Mr. Mills, my rivle in Halbany; Mr. ...

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...t to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I have not yet been able to perceive it. As an honest man, whatever we teach, and be it good or... ...ystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impass- 7 Lay Morals able mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we c... ...misinterpret. So far of Respectability; what the Covenanters used to call ‘rank conformity’: the deadliest gag and wet blanket that can be laid on men... ... be wily, might be adroit, might be wise, might be respect- 31 Lay Morals able, might be gloriously useful; it is the other man who would be good. Th... ...he fire of his bodily life. And hence it is that money stands in the first rank of considerations and so powerfully affects the choice. For our societ... ...h the callosities of habitual opulence. Born into what is called a certain rank, we live, as the saying is, up to our station. We squander without enj... ...aint choice of a luxury; but surely one who had borne the hard labour of a seaman under the tropics for all these years could have supported an excurs...

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...formed the chief characteristics of England’s best bards, and were slow to rank the author of “Eloisa and Abelard,” with the creator of “Hamlet,” “Oth... ... to steer a middle course between the parties. Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in e... ...rn to express. If Lord Carlisle’s object, then, was to elevate Pope to the rank of a classic, it was a superfluous task; if it was to justify the Comm... ...0 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 In endeavouring to fix the rank of a poet, there are, we think, the following elements to be analysed:... ... ideal by mingling it with the mad rev- elry of the “Walpurgis Night”— “An able sow, with old Baubo upon her. Is worthy of glory and worthy of honour.... ...k, or the fringes of the tabernacle! The “Dunciad” is in many respects the ablest, the most elaborate, and the most characteristic of Pope’s poems. In... ...ges found a son of Mars in a mighty warrior, a son of Neptune in a skilful seaman, a son of Phoebus in a harmoni- ous poet, so have we here, if need b...

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