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Had he become a country gentleman in England, or a soldier, like his father, should we not still have had 'The Rhyme of Joyous Garde, 'The Romance of Britomarte, 'By Flood and Field, and 'How we beat the Favourite. And do these not form the majority of his best poems?
The new station was in its turn abandoned in the year 1829, and a fresh settlement, at the distance of a few miles, was planted at Port Essington, by Sir Gordon Bremer, who sailed thither with His Majesty's ships Alligator and Britomarte, in 1838. The colony is still quite in an infant state.
Christie looked, and saw a warlike figure with glittering helmet, shield and lance, streaming hair and savage cloak. She liked the picture, for there was much of the heroic spirit in the girl, and even this poor counterfeit pleased her eye and filled her fancy with martial memories of Joan of Arc, Zenobia, and Britomarte. "Go to!" cried Lucy, who affected theatrical modes of speech.
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