 | 1813 - 566 pages
...sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, ' I really do not see the signal !' Presently he exclaimed, ' Damn the signal! Keep mine for closer battle flying ! That's...way I answer such signals ! Nail mine to the mast !' " Nelson embraced a favourable opportunity during the action to open a negotiation, and, retiring... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I " really do not see the signal !" Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal ! Keep " mine for closer battle flying...way I answer such signals. Nail mine to " the mast !" Admiral Graves, who was so situated that he could not discern what was done on board the Elephant,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...exclaimed, ' I really do not see the signal !' Presently he exclaimed, ' Damn the signal! Keep mine lor closer battle flying ! That's the way I answer such signals ! Nail mine to the mast!'" Nelson embraced a favourable opportunity during the action te open a negotiation, and, retiring into... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...sports with bitternoss, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal !" Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal ! Keep mine for closer battle flying !...way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." ' Vol. ii. p. 121 — 124. After the battle, as he left his ship, he said, in bitter sportiveness :... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 830 pages
...to his blind eye, he exclaimed, " I really don't see the signal. Keep mine for closer battle still flying. That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." Admiral Graves and the other ships, looking only to Nelson, continued the combat with unabated vigour... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...retreat ; but Nelson exclaimed, " Leave off action now ! d — me if I do ! I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind sometimes." Then, putting...ships were forced to strike. Nelson, seeing that his boats were fired upon when they went to take possession of the prizes, wrote a note to the crown-prince,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...retreat ; but Nelson exclaimed, " Leave off action now ! d — me if I do 1 I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind sometimes." Then, putting...began to slacken their fire, and several of their >hips were forced to strike. Nelson, seeing that his boats were fired upon when they went to take possession... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 882 pages
...to his blind eye, he exclaimed, " I really don't see the signal. Keep mine for closer battle still flying. That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast." Admiral Graves O and the other ships, looking only to Nelson, con* " The fire," he said, " is too hot... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...to his blind eye, he exclaimed, ' I really do not see the signal ; keep mine for closer battle still flying. That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast.' Admiral Graves and the other ships, looking only to Nelson, continued the combat with unabated vigour... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...signal." Shortly afterwards, he vociferated, " D — the signal I — keep mine for closer battle flying I That's the way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast I" In half an hour from this time the Danes began to slacken their fire, and several of their ships... | |
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Foley," turning to the captain, "I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
