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...Fredricus held his eyes unmoved, and with hard struggles suppressed the anxious care in his throat, and said: "Ta ta, Mary Ann, I'll see you later"; and then he sought the seclusion that his cabin afforded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

When pious Fredricus ascended into the well-built trireme, his mind, revolving many things, determined that the yawning cavity beneath his belt was empty, and that it cried aloud for sustenance (in fact, Fredricus was grub-struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...when Fredricus had taken away from himself the desire for eating and drinking, he saw next him a lovely maiden eating alone, and, Venus prompting him, he thus addresses her: "O Virgin, by what name shall I call thee? O thou a goddess surely! Art thou a sister of Phoebus, or one of the race of nymphs? O, be propitious, and whoever thou art, - brace up on your supper and take a stroll on deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...they walk the deck of the well-built trireme, and hearken to the music of the flute-playing Germani, and Fredricus is moved as to his heart with love, but Neptune, growing angry at Venus's having it all her own way, calls the winds. And they plough up the deep from its lowest bottom, and roll vast billows to the shores, and a steep mountain of water follows the well-built trireme, and Fredricus and Mary Ann are smitten with a terrible sensation. (In English, they are sea-sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

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