 | 1814 - 548 pages
...one or two passages there is something of more ease anil pleasantry than his style usually affords. ' To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man — not a creature near me. From my heart I wish myself the little man again !' — pp. 9, 1 0.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Lady Emma Hamilton - Admirals - 1814 - 582 pages
...some blank passports for vessels going to Procida with corn, &c. and also one for the courier boat. To tell you, how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...friends, to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man — not a creature near me. From my my heart, I wish myself the little man again ! You, and good... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...one or two passages there is something of more ease and pleasantry than his style usually affords. " To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...from the pleasantest society to a solitary cell ; or front the dearest friends to no friends. I am DOW perfectly tlie great man — not a creature near... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...pity. Nelson's heart too was at this time ashore. " To tell you," he says, writing to Lady Hamilton, " how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard appears,...friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man, — not a creature near me. From my heart I wish myself the little man again. You and good Sir... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...estate six feet by two." His heart was in fact on shore. Writing to Lady Hamilton, he says : — " To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man — not a creature near me. From my heart I wish myself the little man again. You and good Sir... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...pity. Nelson's heart too was at this time ashore. " To tell you," he says, writing to Lady Hamilton, " how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard appears,...friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man, — not a creature near me. From my heart I wish myself the little man again. You and good Sir... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
..."ST. VlSCEHT." Lord Nelson wrote also upon the occasion of losing his protege, but in a different tone "To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard appears, is only telling you wha it is to go from the pleasantest society to a soli tary cell ; or, from the dearest friends to... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...some blank passports for Vessels going to Procida with corn, &c., and also one for the Courier boat. To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the great man — not a creature near me. From my heart, I wish myself the little man again ! You, and good Sir... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 602 pages
...some blank passports for Vessels going to Procida with corn, &c., and also one for the Courier boat. To tell you how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard...friends to no friends. I am now / perfectly the great man — not a creature near me. From my heart, I wish myself the little man again ! You, and good Sir... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1861 - 306 pages
...did toward making him a happy man. " I am now," he wrote, " I am now perfectly the great man : not a creature near me. From my heart I wish myself the little man again ! " There is no true happiness in this life, and in my present state I could quit it with a smile.... | |
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To tell you," he says, writing to Lady Hamilton, "how dreary and uncomfortable the Vanguard appears, is only telling you what it is to go from the pleasantest society to a solitary cell; or from the dearest friends to no friends. I am now perfectly the... 
