 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
..." The pain is so great that I wish I was dead ; — yet I should like to live a little longer ! — What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she knew my situation ?" On hearing that fourteen or fifteen of the enemy had struck, he directed his captain, Hardy, to... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...would like to live a little longer too ;" and in a few minutes he added, in the same under-tone: " What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she knew my situation ?" Hardy had been absent about fifty minutes ; the firing from the Victory had almost ceased, and the... | |
 | John Campbell - 1841 - 604 pages
...my breast," — putting his hand on his left side. — " which tells me so." And upon Dr. Beatty's inquiring whether his pain was very great ? he replied,...voice, " one would like to live a little longer too !" Capt. Hardt. some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned; and, agam taking the band... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...left side, — " which tells me BO." And upon Beatty's inquiring whether his pain was very great 1 he replied, " So 'great, that he wished he was dead....added, " What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if sha knew my situation !" -Next to his country, she occupied his thoughts. Capt. Hardy, some fifty minutes... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...rising in my breast" — putting his hand on his left side — " which tells me so." And upon Beatty inquiring whether his pain was very great, he replied,...longer, too !" And after a few minutes, in the same under-tone, he added : " What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she knew my situation !" Next... | |
 | 1843 - 332 pages
...rising in my breast"— putting his hand on his left side — " which tells nie so." And upon Beatty inquiring whether his pain was very great, he replied,...longer, too !" And after a few minutes, in the same under-tone, he added : " What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she knew my situation !" Next... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...God be praised that I have done my duty. My pain is so severe that I devoutly wish to be released. Yet," said he, in a lower voice, " one would like...become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she knew my situation ! " A spirited, fierce, rapid fire had been kept up from the Victory's starboard guns on the Redoutable... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 pages
...Surgeon's inquiring whether his pain was still very great, he declared, 'it continued so very severe, that he wished he was dead. Yet,' said he in a lower...would like to live a little longer, too :' and after a pause of a few minutes, he added in the same tone, ' What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she... | |
 | Literature - 1847 - 650 pages
...surgeon's inquiring whether his pain was still very great he declared, ' it continued so very severe, that he wished he was dead. Yet,' said he in a lower...would like to live a little longer, too ;' and after a pause of a few minutes, he added in the same tone, ' What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 pages
...great, he declared, ' it continued so very severe, that he wished he was dead. Yet,' said he, in a low voice,' one would like to live a little longer, too :' and after a pause of a few minutes, he added, in the same tone, ' What would become of poor Lady Hamilton, if she... | |
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I feel something rising in my breast," putting his hand on his left side, "which tells me so. 
