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Side 57
... anchor , have each 500 prisoners on board already . I towed a prize belonging to ' Bellerophon from close to Trafalgar in safety for three days , but having my topsails blown out of the boltropes , and one bumpkin carried away , with ...
... anchor , have each 500 prisoners on board already . I towed a prize belonging to ' Bellerophon from close to Trafalgar in safety for three days , but having my topsails blown out of the boltropes , and one bumpkin carried away , with ...
Side 62
... anchor within a few miles of Cadiz to prevent being driven in nearer , their remaining ships ( ten ) being without the harbour , and coming down to attack us . They re - took one two - decker which was left to herself , and also the ...
... anchor within a few miles of Cadiz to prevent being driven in nearer , their remaining ships ( ten ) being without the harbour , and coming down to attack us . They re - took one two - decker which was left to herself , and also the ...
Side 63
... anchors , and cut away the masts ; but the wind abating sufficiently for us to set our reefed fore and main sail , after unwillingly making up my mind to cut the tow - rope , and sacrifice the unfortunate people in the prize , the ...
... anchors , and cut away the masts ; but the wind abating sufficiently for us to set our reefed fore and main sail , after unwillingly making up my mind to cut the tow - rope , and sacrifice the unfortunate people in the prize , the ...
Side 66
... anchor ; and had Admiral Collingwood acted upon that hint we might now have secured almost all our prizes , and the news would , ere this time , have been public at Vienna and in the army of Buonaparte , where it would have made a ...
... anchor ; and had Admiral Collingwood acted upon that hint we might now have secured almost all our prizes , and the news would , ere this time , have been public at Vienna and in the army of Buonaparte , where it would have made a ...
Side 67
... anchor off an arsenal . However , others are gone home by adopting a different mode of proceeding ; and we , who before the action were considered scarcely efficient enough to belong to the fleet , are now , by the same commander ...
... anchor off an arsenal . However , others are gone home by adopting a different mode of proceeding ; and we , who before the action were considered scarcely efficient enough to belong to the fleet , are now , by the same commander ...
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Side 148 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.