Lord Nelson said to Captain Blackwood, " See how that noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action ! How I envy him !" The very same throb and impulse of heroic generosity was beating in Collingwood's honest bosom. The London Magazine - Seite 1361828Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 Seiten
...fire; when the Admiral ordered a gun to be occasionally fired at her, to cover his ship with smoke. ' The nearest of the English ships was now distant about...combined fleets, that Lord Nelson said to Captain Blackvvood, " See how that •noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action. How I envy him... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 Seiten
...fire ; when the Admiral ordered a gun to be occasionally fired at her, to cover his ship with smoke. 4 The nearest of the English ships was now distant about...Royal Sovereign ; and it was at this time, while she vva» pressing alone into the midst of the combined fleets, that Lord Nelson said to Captain Blackwood,... | |
| Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewis Newnham Collingwood - 1828 - 610 Seiten
...fire ; when the Admiral ordered a gun to be occasionally fired at her, to cover his ship with smoke. The nearest of the English ships was now distant about a mile from the Royal Sovereign ; and ato .on ble ral nd lehe to, • a tn, to, up vo nhe iat ro id nt a:r 126 Th. Lie sett hor sqt he qu<... | |
| 1829 - 598 Seiten
...nearest ship of the British fleet, was pressing alone into the midst of the enemy, that Nelson exclaimed to Captain Blackwood — ' See how that noble fellow,...Collingwood, ' takes his ship into action. How I envy him! ' — and that Collingwood, as by divination of his commander's feelings, said — ' What would Nelson... | |
| Edward Hawke Locker - 1831 - 436 Seiten
...mile astern, could come to his support. Nelson had his eye on him ; and, turning to Hardy, he said, " see how that noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action ; how I envy him :" while he, at the same moment, unconscious of the compliment, observed to his officers, " what would... | |
| 1833 - 600 Seiten
...of hereafter!" As he was pressing alone into the midst of the combined fleets. Lord Nelson observed to Captain Blackwood, " See how that noble fellow,...Collingwood, takes his ship into action : how I envy him!" By a singular coincidence, Collingwood is said to have exclaimed, almost at the same moment, " What... | |
| 1842 - 300 Seiten
...the nearest English vessel, and was pressing alone into the midst of the enemy's combined fleet, when Nelson said to Captain Blackwood, " See how that noble...Collingwood takes his ship into action How I envy him !" And Collingwood, well knowing his commander and friend, observed about the same time, " What would... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 Seiten
...fire ; when the Admiral ordered a gun to be occasionally tired at her, to cover his ship with smoke. " The nearest of the English ships was now distant about...alone into the midst of the combined fleets, that Lord Kelson said to Captain Blackwood, ' See how that noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action.... | |
| 1846 - 484 Seiten
...beautifully, when I saw you leading the Excellent into the midst of the enemy, I couldn't help exclaiming to Captain Blackwood, See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action ! How I envy him!" " Strange coincidence ! For a long time we thought that you and your ship had perished, until we at... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 Seiten
...vessels were locked together. Nelson, who saw this brilliant manœuvre, could not avoid exclaiming — " See how that noble fellow Collingwood, takes his ship into action ; how I envy him." By one of those singular coincidences which mark the harmony of noble souls, Collingwood is said to... | |
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