 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 316 דפים
...sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal!" Presently he exclaimed : " Keep mine for closer battle flying! That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast!" Admiral Graves, who was so situated that he could not discern what was done on board the Elephant,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 354 דפים
...sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal! " Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal! Keep mine for closer battle flying! That's...way I answer such signals! Nail mine to the mast!" 1 Admiral reputation, but it would be cowardly in him to leave Nelson to bear the whole shame of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 376 דפים
...sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, "I really do not see the signal! " Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal! Keep mine for closer battle flying! That's the way I answer such signals ! Nail mine to the mast!"1 Admiral * I have groat pleasure in rendering this justice to Sir Hyde Parker's reasoning. This... | |
 | 1897 - 860 דפים
...action. ' Damn the signal !' said N., when this was reported to him. ' Keep mine for closer battie flying. That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast.' And with the certainty of professional disgrace and ruin staring him in the face in case of failure,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 936 דפים
...signaled him to discontinue action. "Damn the signal!" said Nelson, when this was reported to him. " Keep mine for closer battle flying. That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." And with the certainty of professional disgrace and ruio staring him in the face in case of failure,... | |
 | Henry Pitt Warren - 1901 - 508 דפים
...ships. But Nelson, in his determination to fight on, put his telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: " I really do not see the signal. Keep mine for closer...way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." In 1803 Nelson was sent to blockade a large French fleet in Toulon and prevent it from sailing away... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1901 - 382 דפים
...and, while he holds the glass in one hand to his sightless eye, lost in his country's service, saying: "I really do not see the signal. Keep mine for closer...the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast ! " But for all time they will remember this crippled veteran of the seas winning the tremendous fight... | |
 | F. W. Payn - 1901 - 202 דפים
...would not be elsewhere for thousands," turned his blind eye playfully at the signal and cried, " Damn the signal ! Keep mine for closer battle flying. That's...way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." That Sir Hyde's panic-stricken signal might have ruined the whole action in spite of Nelson's prompt... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1902 - 388 דפים
...with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal ! " Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal ! Keep mine for closer battle flying !...way I answer such signals ! Nail mine to the mast ! " Admiral Graves, who was so situated that he could not discern what was done on board the Elephant,... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1905 - 636 דפים
...and exclaimed: "Really, I do not see the signal." Presently he said: "Keep my signal for close action flying! That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the rrast." About 2 pm the fire slackened and the Danish ships were greatly disabled. Nelson resolved to... | |
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Foley," turning to the captain, "I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
