 | Early English newspapers - 1811 - 768 pages
...great, and some idea of them may be formed, from the following passages in his letters. April 19." ' My good fortune, my dear Ball *, seems flown away. I cannot get a fair wind, or even a sidewind — dead foul ! dead foul ! but my mind is fully made up what to de when 1 leave the Straits,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1811 - 750 pages
...My good fortune, my dear Ball *, seems flow* away. I cannot get a fair wind, or even a sidewind — dead foul ! dead foul ! but my mind is fully made up what to do when 1 leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain information of the Enemy's destination. I believe... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...of mind thus forcibly, in writing to the governor of Malta : " My good fortune, my •• dear Bull, seems flown away. I cannot " get a fair wind, or even a side wind. — " Dead foul ! — Dead ibid ! — Buf" my mind " is fully made up what to do when I leave •• the Straits, supposing there... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1814 - 322 pages
...writing to the governor of Malta : " My good fortune, " my dear Ball, seems flown away. I can" not get a fair wind, or even a side wind. " Dead foul...leave " the Straits, supposing there is no certain " account of the enemy's destination. — I " believe this ill-luck will go near to kill *' me ; but,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1828 - 302 pages
...seems flown away. I can" not get a fair wind,, or even a side wind. " Dead foul 1— Dead foul I— But my mind " is fully made up what to do when I leave " the Straits, supposing there is no certain " account of the enemy's destination. — I " believe this ill-luck will go near to kill " me ; but,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...been obtained, he described his state of mind thus forcibly, in writing to the governor of Malta : " My good fortune, my dear Ball, seems flown away. I...I leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain account of the enemy's destination. — I believe this ill luck will go near to kill me ; but, as these... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1835 - 342 pages
...had been obtained, he described his state of mind thus forcibly, in writing to the governor of Malta: "My good fortune, my dear Ball, seems flown away....I leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain account of the enemy's destination. — I believe this ill luck will go near to kill me ; but, as these... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...been obtained, he described his state of mind thus forcibly, in writing to the governor of Malta : " My good fortune, my dear Ball, seems flown away. I...I leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain account of the enemy's destination.— -I believe this ill luck will go near to kill rne ; but, as... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 pages
...which I feel at the escape of the French Fleet." — Impeded by a foul wind, he said, " My good fortune seems flown away. I cannot get a fair wind, or even a side wind. Dead foul ! — dead foul ! . . . I believe this ill luck will go near to kill me." Yet even when his mind was thus a prey to... | |
 | 1847 - 202 pages
...spring up from the eastward. "My good fortune, my dear Ball," he wrote at this time to his friend, " seems flown away. I cannot get a fair wind, or even...I leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain account of the enemy's destination. I believe this ill-luck will go near to kill me ; but as these... | |
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My good fortune, my dear Ball, seems flown away. I cannot get a fair wind, or even a side wind. Dead foul ! Dead foul ! But my mind is fully made up what to do when I leave the Straits, supposing there is no certain account of the enemy's destination.... 
