«Questo liquido è tecnicamente una minestra» continuò Jack, dopo aver tolto il coperchio. «Posso scodellartene un mestolo?»«È piacevole vedere resti di piselli così antichi e consunti che perfino i ve...
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.
Was an officer holding out his sword,
Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illegi...
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them – I look upon good novels – as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowle...
Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distractedly from side to side his mind told him that there was something amiss, the more so as the cheering h...
Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
Wittles is up' said Killick
Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man.
Pochi uccelli Stephen preferiva ai succiacapre, ma non era stato il loro canto a farlo scendere dal letto. Rimase fermo, appoggiato alla ringhiera, e poco dopo Jack Aubrey, in un padiglione presso il...