A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz: our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from the south-west. The sun shone on the sails of the enemy ; and their well-formed line, with their numerous three-deckers,... The Life of Nelson - Side 295af Robert Southey - 1836 - 309 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1814 - 258 sider
...his own orders. A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz : our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from the...The sun shone on the sails of the enemy ; and their well formed line, with their numerous three deckers, made an appearance which any other assailants... | |
| Robert Southey - 1830 - 354 sider
...his own orders. A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz : our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from the...appearance which any other assailants would have thought for-« midable ; — but the British sailors only admired the beauty and the splendour of the spectacle... | |
| 1836 - 480 sider
...obey his orders. A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz: our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from the...The sun shone on the sails of the enemy ; and their well formed line, with their numerous three-deckers, made an appearance which any other assailants... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 172 sider
...glanc'd at each other, and " Oh," they said, " How well they will look at our own ' Spithead.' "* * The sun shone on the sails of the enemy, and their...made an appearance which any other assailants would hare thought formidable. But the British sailors only admired the beauty and the splendour of the spectacle... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 168 sider
...Collingwood, As he burst through the Frenchman's line, " If Nelson could in our place have stood, * The sun shone on the sails of the enemy, and their well-formed ]ine, with their numerous three-deckers, made an appearance which any other assailants would have thought... | |
| 1843 - 320 sider
...his own orders. A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz : our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from- the...splendour of the spectacle ; and, in full confidence of wjnhing what they saw, remarked to each other, what a fine sight yonder ships would make at Spithead... | |
| 1843 - 758 sider
...aboard the French ships, and it could not be doubted but that his life would be particularly aimed at. The sun shone on the sails of the enemy, and their...the British sailors only admired the beauty and the splendor of the spectacle. Ten minutes before twelve they opened their fire. Eight or nine of the ships... | |
| 1843 - 332 sider
...aboard the French ships, and it could not be doubted but that his life would be particularly aimed at. The sun shone on the sails of the enemy, and their...the British sailors only admired the beauty and the splendor of the spectacle. Ten minutes before twelve they opened their fire. Eight or nine of the ships... | |
| Charles Kegan Paul - 1864 - 232 sider
...particularly aimed at. A long swell was setting into the bay of Cadiz ; our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it, with light winds from the...would have thought formidable. But the British sailors N only admired the beauty and the splendour of the spectacle, and, in full confidence of winning what... | |
| Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 sider
...into the Bay of Cadiz; our ships, crowding all sail, moved majestically before it with a light breeze from the south-west. The sun shone on the sails of the enemy; and their well-ordered line, with their huge three-deckers, made a most formidable appearance ; but the British... | |
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