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Page 45
... Nelson was at that time lieutenant , came to the station where he was . Collingwood had long been on terms of intimate friendship with this great man ; and it happened here , that Admiral Parker , the Commander - in - Chief , being a ...
... Nelson was at that time lieutenant , came to the station where he was . Collingwood had long been on terms of intimate friendship with this great man ; and it happened here , that Admiral Parker , the Commander - in - Chief , being a ...
Page 46
... Nelson , who was promoted to a larger ship . In the space of four months , the climate had proved fatal to a hundred and eighty out of the two hundred men composing the crew of the Hinchinbroke . Nor was this a singular case , for every ...
... Nelson , who was promoted to a larger ship . In the space of four months , the climate had proved fatal to a hundred and eighty out of the two hundred men composing the crew of the Hinchinbroke . Nor was this a singular case , for every ...
Page 47
... Nelson , then command- ing the Boreas . Here he remained three years , and with his brother , Captain Wilfred Collingwood , was actively occupied in assisting Captain Nelson to suppress the illicit traffic of the citizens of the United ...
... Nelson , then command- ing the Boreas . Here he remained three years , and with his brother , Captain Wilfred Collingwood , was actively occupied in assisting Captain Nelson to suppress the illicit traffic of the citizens of the United ...
Page 48
... Nelson , " is more to be coveted than anything this world could have afforded , and must be a balm to his surviving friends . " Captain Collingwood was in Northumberland at the time of his brother's death , and remained there four years ...
... Nelson , " is more to be coveted than anything this world could have afforded , and must be a balm to his surviving friends . " Captain Collingwood was in Northumberland at the time of his brother's death , and remained there four years ...
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... Nelson speaks highly of his conduct in this engagement , and thus writes to him on the subject : - " MY DEAREST ... ( Nelson's ship ) from further loss ; and I beg , both as a public officer and a friend , you will accept my most sincere ...
... Nelson speaks highly of his conduct in this engagement , and thus writes to him on the subject : - " MY DEAREST ... ( Nelson's ship ) from further loss ; and I beg , both as a public officer and a friend , you will accept my most sincere ...
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Page 251 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 244 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter scorn a sacrifice And grinning infamy. The stings of falsehood those shall try, And hard unkindness
Page 242 - ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Page 241 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly ; Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate,. The regal palace, the luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord.
Page 243 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Page 242 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which...
Page 243 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around...
Page 88 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Page 234 - I only have transferr'd it to her Eyes. Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Page 19 - It was conducted over pathless sierras buried, in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed ; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry...