 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - Explorers - 1906 - 448 pages
...achieved upon the seas ; and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...enemy, we felt ourselves as secure as now, when they are no longer in existence. There was reason to suppose that, in the course of nature, he might have... | |
 | Robert Southey - Sailors - 1907 - 102 pages
...achieved upon the seas : and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...living, to watch the combined squadrons of the enemy, 10 we felt ourselves as secure as now, when they were no longer in existence. There was reason to suppose,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...achieved upon the seas ; and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...secure as now, when they were no longer in existence. He cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done, nor ought he to be lamented who died... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 490 pages
...achieved upon the seas; and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done; nor ought... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...achieved upon the seas : and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done ; nor ought... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...have called " an agreeable ne'glige'l' without ever trenching on vulgarity, or losing distinction. There was reason to suppose, from the appearances...of nature he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work is done ; nor ought... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...and There was reason to suppose, from the ap- so respected by everybody, though she was not pearanccs r heavy task was done 25 When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we hea " "*££*£!%* "" UP°n ***** his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be Prompting illustrious... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...achieved upon the seas; and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes ments wh to a good old age. » Sidney, The Defente of Poeiy, 23, 27 (Ath. Press ed.). Yet he cannot be said... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1916 - 376 pages
...achieved upon the seas : and the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done ; nor ought... | |
 | Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis, K. I. Bemis - Patriotism - 1918 - 200 pages
...was achieved upon the sea: and the destruction of this mighty fleet by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated, hardly appeared...of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done; nor ought... | |
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Nelson's surpassing genius, that it scarcely seemed to receive any addition from the most signal victory that ever was achieved upon the seas. And the destruction of this mighty fleet, by which all the maritime schemes of France were totally frustrated,... 
