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Page 187 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Page 119 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
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| Title | Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final Corrections, Notes, &c, Volume 12 Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final Corrections, Notes, &c, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | S.H. Parker and B.B. Mussey, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 4, 2007 |
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