 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...  Contains the earls from the accession of George III - Page 597by Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 492 pages
...liberate Italy; but this court is so enervated that the happy moment will be lost:" — and again: — '* I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of this...irritable temper. It is a country of fiddlers and poets, strumpets and scoundrels." — The mob, he suid afterwards, were loyal, the nobility jacobins. When... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...Naples and Vienna are losing ! this court is so enervated that the happy moment -mill be fett" p. 101. " I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of this court is not likely to cool m\ irritable temper. It is a country ofjldtilers and poets, -whores and scoundrels." p. 10J — Captain... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...Queen, and Sir William and Lady Hamilton, were foremost. On September 30th, he wrote thus to Lord Sr. Vincent : " I trust, my Lord, in a week we shall all...October 2d, when the dispatches were brought by the Hon.Captnin Cipel. The illustrious Admiral was immediately advanced to the Peerage, by the title of... | |
 | 1813 - 552 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...of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." The French after this got possession of Naples, owing to the imbecility and corruption of the government,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 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...of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." The French after this got possession of Naples, owing to th« imbecility and corruption ef the government,... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 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 lie always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the1 mingled folly... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...so enervated, that the happy mo" ment 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 scoun" drels." This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the... | |
 | 1815 - 210 pages
...very day after the celebrated fete, of which we have taken notice : " I am very unwell;" said he, " and the miserable conduct of this court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a countiy of fidlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." That Nelson should with such feelings continue... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 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... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...Three months would liberate Italy ; but this court is so enervated that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of this...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." Subsequent events furnished but too comNelson created a Peer. plete a justification of this seemingly... | |
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