 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 354 pagina’s
...on him at five in the morning. Nelson, who was already dressed, exclaimed, the moment he saw him: " I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish fleets! I think I shall yet have to beat them!" They had refitted at Vigo, after the indecisive action with... | |
 | 1897 - 760 pagina’s
...presented himself at Merton, and found Nelson already up and dressed. On seeing Captain Blackwood, Nelson exclaimed, " I am sure you bring me news of the French...Fleets, and I think I shall yet have to beat them." Lady Hamilton, who dictated a book about Nelson to a Mr. Harrison, would have us believe that Nelson... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 pagina’s
...at five o'clock in the morning, and found Nelson already up and dressed. The latter said at once, " I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish...fleets, and I think I shall yet have to beat them." Later in the day he called at the Admiralty, and there saw Blackwood again. In the course of conversation,... | |
 | 1897 - 790 pagina’s
...Nelson already up and dressed. On seeing Captain Blackwood, Nelson exclaimed, " I am sure you bringme news of the French and Spanish Fleets, and I think I shall yet have to beat them." Lady Hamilton, who dictated a book about Nelson to a Mr. Harrison, would have us believe that Nelson... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 378 pagina’s
...him at five in the morning. Nelson, who was already dressed, exclaimed, the moment he saw him .• ' I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish fleets ! I think I shall yet have to beat them ! ' They had refitted at Vigo, after the indecisive action... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 pagina’s
...Blackwood called at Merton, where he found Nelson already up and dressed. Immediately on seeing him Nelson exclaimed, " I am sure you bring me news of the French...fleets, and I think I shall yet have to beat them." A few hours later Nelson followed him to London, and in talking over the operations that were intended... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1902 - 430 pagina’s
...chaise and leaped out. " I am sure," said Nelson, when he saw Blackwood's familiar face, " you bring news of the French and Spanish fleets ; and I think I shall yet have to beat them. Depend upon it, Blackwood, I shall yet give Mr. Villeneuve a drubbing." When Nelson, with the great... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1902 - 388 pagina’s
...him at five in the morning. JSTelson, who was already dressed, exclaimed, the moment he saw him : " I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish fleets ! I think I shall yet have to beat them ! " They had refitted at Vigo, after the indecisive action... | |
 | Henry Lawrence Swinburne, Norman Wilkinson, Charles Napier Robinson - 1907 - 648 pagina’s
...those military enterprises on land for the accomplishment of which his genius better fitted him. " I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish...fleets, and I think I shall yet have to beat them ! " So spoke Nelson to Captain Blackwood of the Euryalus, who visited him at Merton at 5 o'clock on... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1908 - 352 pagina’s
...called on him at five in the morning. Nelson, who was already dressed, exclaimed, the moment he saw him: "I am sure you bring me news of the French and Spanish fleets ! I think I shall yet have to beat them ! " They had refitted at Vigo, after the indecisive action... | |
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