In the remote Shetland Isles, a shipwrecked stranger who proves to be a pirate captain unsettles the loves of two sisters.
Books mentioned in The Pirate (22)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “Nothing in him---- But doth suffer a sea-change. _Tempest._”
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson: “I have possessed the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons. The sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction; the clouds, at my command, have poured forth their waters. RASSELAS.”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “----Thou hast described A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. _Julius Caesar._”
The Odyssey by Homer: “Full in the midst the polish'd table shines, And the bright goblets, rich with generous wines; Now each partakes the feast, the wine prepares, Portions the food, and each the portion shares; Nor till the rage of thirst and hunger ceased, To the high host approach'd the sagacious guest. _Odyssey._”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “A torch for me--let wantons, light of heart, Tickle the useless rushes with their heels: For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase-- I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. _Romeo and Juliet._”
The Battle of the Summer Islands by Edmund Waller: “Pikes, halberds, spits, and darts, that wound afar, The tools of peace, and implements of war. Now was the time for vigorous lads to show What love or honour could incite them to;-- A goodly theatre, where rocks are round With reverend age and lovely lasses crown'd. _Battle of the Summer Islands._”
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: “Is all the counsel that we two have shared-- The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us--O, and is all forgot? _Midsummer-Night's Dream._”
The Library by George Crabbe: “But lost to me, for ever lost those joys, Which reason scatters, and which time destroys. No more the midnight fairy-train I view, All in the merry moonlight tippling dew. Even the last lingering fiction of the brain, The churchyard ghost, is now at rest again. _The Library._”
The Corsair by Byron: “There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled--and Mercy sigh'd farewell. _The Corsair, Canto I._”
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser: “But this sad evil which doth her infest, Doth course of natural cause far exceed, And housed is within her hollow breast, That either seems some cursed witch's deed, Or evill spright that in her doth such torment breed. _Fairy Queen, Book III., Canto III._”
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster: “Of stormy weather,) some men lie interr'd, Loved the Church so well, and gave so largely to it, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday;--but all things have their end-- Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death which we have. _Duchess of Malfy._”
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare: “"By this hand, thou think'st me as far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and persistency. Let the end try the man.... Albeit I could tell to thee, (as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend,) I could be sad, and sad indeed too." _Henry IV., Part 2d._”
Henry and Emma by Matthew Prior: “Now, Emma, now the last reflection make, What thou wouldst follow, what thou must forsake By our ill-omen'd stars and adverse Heaven, No middle object to thy choice is given. _Henry and Emma._”
The Georgics by Virgil: “He endured the Bucolics of Virgil--the Georgics he had by heart--but the Aeneid he could not away with;”
Eclogues by Virgil: “He endured the Bucolics of Virgil--the Georgics he had by heart--but the Aeneid he could not away with;”
The Aeneid by Virgil: “He endured the Bucolics of Virgil--the Georgics he had by heart--but the Aeneid he could not away with;”
The Rehearsal by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: “"the Rehearsal is the best farce ever was written--and I'll make him kiss the gunner's daughter that denies it.”
The Fatal Sisters by Thomas Gray: “When Gray's Ode, entitled the "Fatal Sisters," was first published, or at least first reached that remote island, the reverend gentleman had the well-judged curiosity to read it to some of the old”
The Descent of Odin by Thomas Gray: “who, as in the legend called by Gray the Descent of Odin, awakens by the force of Runic rhyme the unwilling revealer of the doom of fate,”
A Description of the Shetland Islands by Samuel Hibbert: “Mr. Hibbert has, in his Description of the Zetland Islands, given an account of the sword-dance, but somewhat less full than the following:”
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: “as in the interlude presented in "All's Well that Ends Well."”
Eyrbyggja Saga: “The _Northern Popular Antiquities_ contain, in an abstract of the Eyrbiggia Saga, a particular account of the manner in which the Helga Fels, or Holy Rock, was set apart by the Pontiff Thorolf for solemn occasions.”
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “The Pirate,'" she said, taking the book from Philip's hands.”