The Chronicles of America Series: Elizabethan sea dogsYale University Press, 1918 |
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... began exploring the coasts of America as far northwest as Labrador . Twenty years later again the Portuguese Magellan , sailing for the King of Spain , discovered the strait still known by his name , passed through it into the ' Basque ...
... began exploring the coasts of America as far northwest as Labrador . Twenty years later again the Portuguese Magellan , sailing for the King of Spain , discovered the strait still known by his name , passed through it into the ' Basque ...
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... likewise sowed some dragon's teeth . The English sea - dogs never forgot the iron chests of Spanish New - World gold , and presently began to wonder whether there was no sure way in far America by which to get it KING HENRY VIII 31.
... likewise sowed some dragon's teeth . The English sea - dogs never forgot the iron chests of Spanish New - World gold , and presently began to wonder whether there was no sure way in far America by which to get it KING HENRY VIII 31.
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... began and the sea became safer than the land for those who held strong anti- Papal views . The Royal Navy was neglected even more than it had been lately by the Lord Protector . But fighting traders , privateers , and pirates multiplied ...
... began and the sea became safer than the land for those who held strong anti- Papal views . The Royal Navy was neglected even more than it had been lately by the Lord Protector . But fighting traders , privateers , and pirates multiplied ...
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... began that colonizing movement which has carried their language the whole world round and estab- lished their civilization in every quarter of the globe . Within three centuries after Elizabeth's day the use of English as a native ...
... began that colonizing movement which has carried their language the whole world round and estab- lished their civilization in every quarter of the globe . Within three centuries after Elizabeth's day the use of English as a native ...
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... began to ' garnish his cupboards with pewter and his joined beds with tapestry and silk hangings , and his tables with carpets and fine napery . ' He could even feast his neighbors and servants after shearing day with new - fangled ...
... began to ' garnish his cupboards with pewter and his joined beds with tapestry and silk hangings , and his tables with carpets and fine napery . ' He could even feast his neighbors and servants after shearing day with new - fangled ...
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Seite 196 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Seite 233 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 233 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 60 - Why, as men do a-land ; the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping, till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and all.
Seite 158 - My very good Lord, there is now a very great gap opened, very little to the liking of the King of Spain. ' This 'very great gap' on the American side of the Atlantic was soon to be matched by the still greater gap Drake was to make on the European side by destroying the Spanish Armada and thus securing that mightiest of ocean highways through which the hosts of emigration afterwards poured into a land endowed with the goodly heritage of English liberty and the English tongue. The year of Drake's...
Seite 60 - I'll drive his patent for him. We'll take in citizens, commoners, and aldermen, To bear the charge, and blow them off again, Like so many dead flies, when it is carried.
Seite 122 - I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company, and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know him that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Seite 118 - great store of wild-fire, chain-shot, harquebusses, pistols, corslets, bows and other like weapons in great abundance. Neither had he omitted to make provision for ornament and delight, carrying with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the cook-room, being of pure silver), and divers shows of all sorts of curious workmanship whereby the civility and magnificence of his native country might amongst all nations withersoever he should come,...
Seite 115 - He had it from me,' quoth Master Doughty. 'Lo, my masters,' quoth he, 'what this fellow hath done; God will have his treacheries all known, for her Majesty gave me special commandment that of all men my Lord Treasurer should not know it, but to see [sic] he his own mouth hath betrayed him.
Seite 83 - And although in the beginning they seemed to be but small hurts, yet there hardly escaped any that had blood drawn of them, but died in strange sort, with their mouths shut some ten days before they died, and after their wounds were whole; where I myself had one of the greatest wounds, yet, thanks be to God, escaped.