 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...hero —the greatest of our own, and of all former times—was scarcely taken into the account of grief. So perfectly, indeed, had he performed his part,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...taken into the account of grief. So perfectly, indeed, tad he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle of Trafalgar, was considered at... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English language - 1922 - 138 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they tad heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...What the country had lost in its great naval hero — 86 5 the greatest of our own, and of all former times, was scarcely taken into the account of grief.... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...him. What the country had lost in its great naval hero—the greatest of our own, and of all former times—was scarcely taken into the account of grief.... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...former times, was scarcely taken into the account of 544 grief. So perfectly, indeed, had he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle... | |
 | Mormons - 1899 - 492 pages
...the intelligence and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...him. What the country had lost in its great naval hero—the greatest of our own and of all former times, was scarcely taken into the account of grief.... | |
 | Betsy Bolton - Drama - 2001 - 298 pages
...Nelson was both highly compelling and socially repulsive to contemporary observers. That Nelson, the "great naval hero the greatest of our own, and of all former times" should publicly associate himself with the wife of a nobleman who had befriended him gave his admirers... | |
 | John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...the intelligence and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...till then, known how deeply we loved and reverenced him.'4 That huge sense of loss manifested itself in a torrent of memorabilia and a multiplicity of... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...him. What the country had lost in its great naval hero—the greatest of our own, and of all former times—was scarcely taken into the account of grief.... | |
 | John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...the intelligence and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our...then, known how deeply we loved and reverenced him.' 4 That huge sense of loss manifested itself in a torrent of memorabilia and a multiplicity of monuments.... | |
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The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity: men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our hopes,... 
