 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 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... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 328 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...upon the hero — the darling hero — of England. He arrived off Cadiz on the twenty-ninth of September — his birthday. Fearing that, if the enemy... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 376 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...last moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England!1 He arrived off Cadiz on the 29th of September — his birthday. Fearing that, if the enemy... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 354 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 the hero—the darling hero of England! 1 1 The spot of English ground last trod by the hero's foot is... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 378 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. He arrived off Cadiz on the 29th of September, — his birthday. Fearing that, if the enemy knew his... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 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... | |
 | Walter Jeffery - Australia - 1900 - 410 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...upon the hero — the darling hero — of England." On Southsea beach there were two monuments of ' a kind. Felton's Gibbet still stood, a guide for little... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1901 - 272 pages
...with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat ; for the people would not be ADMIRAL NELSON. debarred from gazing, till the last moment, upon the hero, the darling hero of England. The station which Nelson had chosen was some fifty or sixty miles to the west of Cadiz, near Cape St.... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1901 - 272 pages
...with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat; for the people would not be -K3181£3debarred from gazing, till the last moment, upon the hero, the darling hero of England. The station which Nelson had chosen was some fifty or sixty miles to the west of Cadiz, near Cape St.... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1902 - 388 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...upon the hero — the darling hero — of England ! He arrived off Cadiz on the 29th of September — his birthday. Fearing that, if the enemy knew his... | |
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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... 
