 What precious moments," said he, "the Courts of Naples and Vienna are losing! Three months would liberate Italy ; but this Court is so enervated, that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool...  Peerage of England. ... - Page 583by Arthur Collins - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 602 pages
...ADMIRAL THE EARL OF ST. VINCENT, KB [From Clarke and M'Arthur, vol. ii. p. 103.] / September j)0tb, 17U8. I trust, my Lord, in a week we shall all be at sea....country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels. I am, &c., HORATIO NELSON. TO LADY NELSON. [From Clarke and M'Artlinr, vol. up 112.] 1st to Cth of... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...ADMIRAL THE EARL OF ST. VINCENT, KB [From Clarke and M'Artliur, vol. ji. p. 103.] September 30th, 1798. I trust, my Lord, in a week we shall all be at sea....country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels. I am, &c., HOKATIO NELSON. TO LADY NELSON. [From Clarke and M'Arthur, vol. ii. p. 112.] 1st to Cth... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Admirals - 1849 - 572 pages
...overcame him, he writes to the Earl St. Vincent: " I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of the Court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a country of fiddlers and poets, whores and l Memoirs and Letters of Sir VV. Hosts, Vol. ip 107. scoundrels.'' 1 The devotedness, however, of Sir... | |
 | Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...court is so enervated, that the moment will -be lost. I am very unwell, and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a country of fools and fiddlers, scoundrels, &c." If ever for a moment he was blinded by the displays of this court,... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1863 - 704 pages
...lines to his friend and commanding officer, St. Vincent — ' I trust, my lord, in a week, we shall be at sea. I am very unwell ; and the miserable conduct...It is a country of fiddlers and poets, whores, and scoundrels.'2 To the King himself, the British admiral bluntly offered the alternative of taking up... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1865 - 470 pages
...lines to his friend and commanding officer, St Vincent — ' I trust, my Lord, in a week, we shall be at sea. I am very unwell; and the miserable conduct...country of fiddlers and poets, whores, and scoundrels.' * To the Neapolitan King himself, the British Admiral bluntly offered the alternative of taking up... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1877 - 410 pages
...is so enervated, that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the mingled. folly... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1878 - 306 pages
...is so enervated, that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the mingled folly... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1881 - 348 pages
...is so enervated that the happy moment will be lost ! I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels.' This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the mingled folly... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1883 - 316 pages
...is so enervated, that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the mingled folly... | |
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