The Naval Chronicle, Том 2James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones J. Gold, 1799 Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men. |
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... morning of the 30th , this plan was so far executed as to surprise the enemy's redoubt most effectually : -the British troops having obtained full possession of the Height and bat- tery , their ardour and impetuosity was not to be ...
... morning of the 30th , this plan was so far executed as to surprise the enemy's redoubt most effectually : -the British troops having obtained full possession of the Height and bat- tery , their ardour and impetuosity was not to be ...
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... morning , Fort Mulgrave , on the Height de Grasse , was stormed by an immense body of the enemy , after having kept up an incessant fire with shot and shells for 24 hours . The right occupied by the Spaniards soon gave way as before ...
... morning , Fort Mulgrave , on the Height de Grasse , was stormed by an immense body of the enemy , after having kept up an incessant fire with shot and shells for 24 hours . The right occupied by the Spaniards soon gave way as before ...
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... morning Lord Hood sent summons to the town ; but the French General La Combe St. Michell would not receive his letter , and returned a vaunting message , that the only correspondence he should hold with an enemy on the Re- OF LORD HOOD , ...
... morning Lord Hood sent summons to the town ; but the French General La Combe St. Michell would not receive his letter , and returned a vaunting message , that the only correspondence he should hold with an enemy on the Re- OF LORD HOOD , ...
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... morning stood in for sallo Bay . Finding the frigates were not in the neigh bourhood , I attacked the town of Cambretles , and the Spaniards having quitted their guns on a tower , sent the boats in under Licut , Grosset , of the Centaur ...
... morning stood in for sallo Bay . Finding the frigates were not in the neigh bourhood , I attacked the town of Cambretles , and the Spaniards having quitted their guns on a tower , sent the boats in under Licut , Grosset , of the Centaur ...
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... morning sailed on a cruise off Brest , the Saturn , 74 guns , Captain Totty , Amelia 44 , Hon . Captain Herbert , Magnanime 44 , Captain Turton , Telegraph and Spy sloops of war , a lugger , and a cutter , Col , II . M APPOINTMENTS ...
... morning sailed on a cruise off Brest , the Saturn , 74 guns , Captain Totty , Amelia 44 , Hon . Captain Herbert , Magnanime 44 , Captain Turton , Telegraph and Spy sloops of war , a lugger , and a cutter , Col , II . M APPOINTMENTS ...
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Стр. 329 - Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon—" The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy.
Стр. 419 - I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
Стр. 330 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around; It cracked and growled, and roared and howled. Like noises in a swound!
Стр. 419 - The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Стр. 330 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Стр. 372 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Стр. 420 - O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Стр. 231 - To all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write: The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Стр. 232 - Should foggy Opdam chance to know, Our sad and dismal story, The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, And quit their fort at Goree : For what resistance can they find From men who've left their hearts behind? With a fa la, la la, la la.
Стр. 16 - And, reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair.