| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pagina’s
...must have a great esteem for you, and that it is not what is vulgarly — I do not much like the use of that word — called love. He is right; my love...I need not tell you what you so well know, that I Nelson's Marriage. wish I had a fortune to settle on you ; but I trust I have a good name, and that... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844 - 586 pagina’s
...must have a great esteem for you, and that it is not what is (vulgarly), I do not much like the use of that word, called love.' He is right : my love...wish I had a fortune to settle on you : but I trust I " Sir Thomas Shirley, the Governor. • Edward Byam, President of the Council at Antigua, and Judge... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844 - 590 pagina’s
...must have a great esteem for you, and that it is not what is (vulgarly), I do not much like the use of that word, called love.' He is right : my love...wish I had a fortune to settle on you : but I trust I 6 Sir Thomas Shirley, the Governor. have a good name, and that certain events will bring the other... | |
| John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 442 pagina’s
...not, he says then he is sure I must have a great esteem for you, and that it is not what is vulgarly called love. He is right. My love is founded on esteem,...the only foundation that can make the passion last." When we remember the sequel of the story of Nelson's married life, we may perhaps be inclined to think... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 566 pagina’s
...must have a great esteem for you, and that it is not what is (vulgarly), I do not much like the use of that word, called love.' He is right: my love is...the only foundation that can make the passion last." But general maxims, even when less disputable than this, do not admit of universal application; and... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1907 - 526 pagina’s
...LADY HAMILTON great esteem for you, and that it is not what is (vulgarly), I do not much like the use of that word, called love.' He is right : my love...the only foundation that can make the passion last." It is not recorded how his Frances liked this letter : she was of a calm and unexcitable temperament... | |
| James Richard Thursfield - 1909 - 446 pagina’s
...increase by a longer knowledge of her" ; and to herself he wrote some two months before their marriage, " My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last." This is not the language of a Nelson in love, of the man who could write many years afterwards to Lady... | |
| James Richard Thursfield - 1920 - 440 pagina’s
...increase by a longer knowledge of her " ; and to herself he wrote some two months before their marriage, " My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last." This is not the language of a Nelson in love, of the man who could write many years afterwards to Lady... | |
| Owen Aubrey Sherrard - 1927 - 390 pagina’s
...in keeping with either his natural instincts or his profession as a sailor. " My love," he wrote, " is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last." He should either have left philosophy alone, or gone into it deeper. As it was he fell between two... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 618 pagina’s
...increase by a longer knowledge of her ; ' and to herself he wrote some two months before their marriage, ' My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.' This is not the language of a Nelson in love, of the man who could write many years afterwards to Lady... | |
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