"Ship of the line" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man and a poet, and maintained that "exquisite descriptions of artificial objects are not less characteristic of genius than the description of simple physical appearances." He instanced Milton's description of Satan's spear and shield, and gave an animated picture of the launching of a ship of the line as an example of the "sublime objects of artificial life." Bowles replied in a letter to Campbell on "The Invariable Principles of Poetry." He claimed that it was the appearances of nature, the sea ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... there's a fort near, to which one can run should an enemy appear; and a pleasanter thought still, that the fort is strong and staunch. but, to change the figure, I have a great fancy for paddling my own light canoe, and such small craft will often float, you know, where a ship of the line ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... seven o'clock on this momentous evening of the 1st of April, a 'mess' of sailors on board a Danish ship of the line, the outermost of all in the harbour, had just received, in common with their shipmates, an extra allowance of braendeviin—white corn-brandy, somewhat like whisky. They were filled with feelings of high professional pride and confidence, and eagerly pledged ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 - Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 • Various
... of France, has the honor of informing Congress, that he will transmit to his Court the resolution, by which Congress offers the ship of the line America, to replace the ship the Magnifique, which ran ashore at Boston, and which there is little hope of relieving. The Chevalier de la Luzerne cannot anticipate the determination of his Majesty, with regard to this offer, but as the desire of Congress to substitute immediately ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI • Various
... fought in soundings about sixteen miles to the westward of Cape Trafalgar; and if fortunately there had been more wind in the beginning of the action, it is very probable that Lord NELSON would still have been saved to his Country, and that every ship of the line composing the Combined Fleets would have been either captured or destroyed: for had the Victory been going fast through the water, she must have dismasted the Redoutable, and would of course have passed on to attack another ship; consequently ...
— The Death of Lord Nelson • William Beatty |
