...of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some marti- net of a professional mariner or some landsman with shat- tered nerves, every one of God’s creatu... ...y in the grave. It was by a hazard that we learned the conduct of the four marines of the Wager. There was no room for these brave fellows in the boat... ...ossible twisting of human speech, be construed into anything great for the marines. You may suppose, if you like, that they died hoping their behaviou... ...e likely. What can be the signification of the word “fame” to a private of marines, who cannot read and knows nothing of past history beyond the remin... ...ion, worth “thousands” to any one who has a heart under his jacket. If the marines of the Wager gave three cheers and cried “God bless the king,” it w... ...ular merit and interest. They were exposed in the apartments of the Scotch Academy; and filled those who are accustomed to visit the annual spring exh...

...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...me to enlighten you, else you ruin 105 Thomas de Quincey the story of the mariner; and by losing all its pathos, lose half the jewels of its beauty. ... ...ose half the jewels of its beauty. There are three readers of the ‘Ancient Mariner.’ The first is gross enough to fancy all the imagery of the mariner... ... febrile delirium; really seen, but not seen as an exter- nal reality. The mariner had caught the pestilential fever, which carried off all his mates;... ...arity school; and, in the year 1732, removed to the Royal (or Frederician) Academy. Here he studied the Greek and Latin classics, and formed an intima...