 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till...moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England ! It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat, for the people would not be debarred from gazing till...hero — the darling hero of England ! . . . . At daybreak the combined fleets were distinctly seen from the Victory's deck, formed in a close line of... | |
 | Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat, for the people would not be debarred from gazing till...hero — the darling hero of England ! . . . . At daybreak the combined fleets were distinctly seen from the Victory's deck, formed in a close line of... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat ; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till...moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England ! It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1867 - 106 pages
...with the bayonet,— not very prudently, upon such an occasion,—was compelled rapidly to retire; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till the last moment, upon the hero,—the darling hero, of England." 68, Example 2. (Without Connectives.) 1. The Clauses:— a 1... | |
 | Book - 1867 - 662 pages
...occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets was compelled speedily to retreat, for the people would not be debarred from gazing till the last moment upon their darling hero. Lord Nelson quitted England on the 16th of September, in his flagship, the Victory,... | |
 | Christian life - 1868 - 904 pages
...of horses ; for, in the language of Southey, "tho people would not be debarred from gazing till tho last moment upon the hero — the darling hero of...England." At three o'clock a salute from the batteries at Dover announced the arrival of the duke, who, upon alighting at Wright's hotel, was joined by ViceAdrniral... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...ordered them to drive the people down with their b.iyonets,i was compelled speedily to retreat; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till...moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England ! It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till...moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England ! It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat ; for the people would not be debarred from gazing, till...moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England. It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the... | |
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... cheers by waving his hat. The sentinels, who endeavoured to prevent them from trespassing upon this ground, were wedged among the crowd; and an officer, who, not very prudently upon such an occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their... 
