 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 444 pagina’s
...of the cottage he said : " Ah, the poor cottage, I shall never see it again ! " Lord Nelson. Walmer, October 1st, 1834. — We were talking of Lord Nelson,...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 606 pagina’s
...of the cottage he said : " Ah, the poor cottage, I shall never see it again ! " Lord Nelson. Walmer, October 1st, 1834. — We were talking of Lord Nelson,...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pagina’s
...shown into the little waiting-room on the right hand, where I found, also waiting to see the Secretory of State, a gentleman, whom from his likeness to his...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 492 pagina’s
..." Ah, the .poor cottage, I shall never see it again 1" Lord Nelson. Walmer, October 1st, 1834.—We were talking of Lord Nelson, and some instances were...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 pagina’s
...October 1st, 1834. We were talking of Lord Nelson, and some instances were mentioned of the egotism aud vanity that derogated from his character. " Why,"...closely the date of this interesting interview. The Culunial ami War Offices seem then to have been under one head. VOL. II. 21 himself, and in, really,... | |
 | 1902 - 1212 pagina’s
...waiting to see the Secretary, a gentleman who, from his likeness to hispicture and the loss of an arm, I recognised as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I...conversation, for it was almost all on his side, and all about himself, and in really a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me." Nelson left... | |
 | Henry Belcher - 1911 - 424 pagina’s
...waiting-room on the right hand, where I found also waiting to see the Secretary of State a gentleman, who from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in really a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. The humour... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1913 - 362 pagina’s
...I went to the Colonial Office in Downing Street, and there I was shown into the little waiting room on the right hand, where I found, also waiting to...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - 1918 - 712 pagina’s
...gentleman, who, from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognized as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself and, in reality a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
 | 1918 - 708 pagina’s
...gentleman, who, from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognized as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself and, in reality a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose... | |
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I was, but he entered at once into conversation with me, if I can call it conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose something that... 
