Recollections of James Anthony Gardner: Commander R. N. (1775-1814)Navy Records Society, 1906 - 287 páginas |
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1st Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant 74 Captain anchor arrived Barfleur battle Berwick Billy blowing blue boat Boatswain brave Bryan O'Lynn called cockpit commander commodore convoy court martial cruise damned Dead deck devil died droll Edgar Eileen aroon flag flagship fore French frigate gale gave gentleman go on shore Gosport grand fleet grog Gunner gunroom guns Hamoaze harbour head hoisted J. A. GARDNER Jack JAMES joined look Lord Hood Macbride marines mast master Mate mess messmate Midshipman mizen morning Naval navy never night officer ordered passage port admiral Portsmouth Portsmouth Harbour post captain Princess Royal purser rear-admiral remember RICHARD ROBERT Royal sail sailor says seaman sent ship ship's company signal Sir John Sir John Collins soon Spithead squadron station swore thought told took topmast topsail Toulon Uncertain vice-admiral watch weather West Indies WILLIAM wind worthy fellow yard
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Página 121 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 15 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Página 19 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!
Página 79 - The corporal Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius, — for he was your kinsman : Weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness, — for he was your brother.
Página 197 - But wherefore waste I words? I see advance Whore, pupil, and laced governor from France. Walker! our hat' nor more he deigned to say, But, stern as Ajax
Página 19 - Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 251 - Seek not your fleet, but sally from the wall; So Jove once more may drive their routed train, And Troy lie trembling in her walls again.
Página 145 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrhus exsultat, telis et luce coruscus aëna; 470 qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina pastus, frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat, nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque iuventa lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga, arduus ad solem, et linguis micat ore trisulcis.
Página 245 - He had great antipathy to the West Indies, and was always cursing Venables and Penn for taking possession of Jamaica, and was sorry Oliver Cromwell did not make them a head shorter for their pains. I have often heard him repeat the following lines as a morning and evening hymn : — Venables and Penn, Two bloody-minded men, In an evil hour...
Página 142 - have been the case in England, where every hole and corner has a board threatening prosecution, and if you pass two or three stopping in the street, their conversation will be about law, hanging, or trade?" Gardner's last ship was the Brunswick, on which one Rea was captain of marines. "Rea...