The Age of BlakeLionel William Lyde Black, 1899 - 192 Seiten |
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... Spaniards , which were more or less the same thing . Elizabeth was a tyrant , but she understood and loved her people ; she was a woman , and her life was threatened by Pope and Spaniard ; she was a Queen , but she would wave her ...
... Spaniards , which were more or less the same thing . Elizabeth was a tyrant , but she understood and loved her people ; she was a woman , and her life was threatened by Pope and Spaniard ; she was a Queen , but she would wave her ...
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... Spaniards during this epoch only emphasizes the courage , endurance , and seamanship of the English sailors ; and it is the seamanship which is most wonderful , for the means at their command were in theory contemptible . Their vessels ...
... Spaniards during this epoch only emphasizes the courage , endurance , and seamanship of the English sailors ; and it is the seamanship which is most wonderful , for the means at their command were in theory contemptible . Their vessels ...
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... Spaniards ; they were brave , filled with religious fervour , and consumed by an insatiable thirst for gold . There must have been special causes , there- fore , for the superiority of the English sailors . Something may , perhaps ...
... Spaniards ; they were brave , filled with religious fervour , and consumed by an insatiable thirst for gold . There must have been special causes , there- fore , for the superiority of the English sailors . Something may , perhaps ...
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... Spaniards— “ not as Frenchmen , but as heretics . " For instance , every Rochelle colony in The outrage had been avenged from Rochelle by the surprise and hanging of the whole Spanish garrison- " not as Spaniards , but as murderers ...
... Spaniards— “ not as Frenchmen , but as heretics . " For instance , every Rochelle colony in The outrage had been avenged from Rochelle by the surprise and hanging of the whole Spanish garrison- " not as Spaniards , but as murderers ...
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... Spaniards , made it at once quite easy for him to pay his own men , and corre- spondingly difficult for Philip to pay his . In the ' singeing of the King of Spain's beard ' in Cadiz harbour , Drake had destroyed shipping to the value of ...
... Spaniards , made it at once quite easy for him to pay his own men , and corre- spondingly difficult for Philip to pay his . In the ' singeing of the King of Spain's beard ' in Cadiz harbour , Drake had destroyed shipping to the value of ...
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aboard admiral Angel Gabriel Armada Azores boat called Cape captain carrack cast Centurion clock coast commanded courage danger descried divers Drake Duke Edited Elizabeth enemy England English ships fell fight fire frigate Frobisher galleons galleys gave Golden Hind hands hath Hawkins Henry Henry of Navarre honour hundred hurt Illustrations Indies island Isle John Fox king of Spain L. W. LYDE land leagues London Lord Howard M.A. Price Majesty's master masts Merchant Royal merchants morning musket Navarre night oars ordnance Peter Unticaro Philip pinnace plunder Plymouth Plymouth Hoe Portugal Price 18 prison ready rest Revenge sail sailors sent shore side sight Sir John Burrough Sir Richard Sir Walter Raleigh slain small ships soldiers sort Spaniards Spanish Armada Spanish fleet Spanish galleys Special Introduction squadron Straits of Gibraltar tons Turks unto valiant vessels vice-admiral victory victuals voyage West whereof wind wounded yield
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, thi:; earth, this realm, this England...
Seite 98 - ... spurring in; And eastward straight from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent. Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers...
Seite 171 - With all its priest-led citizens and all its rebel peers, And Apperizel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land; And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand: And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Seite 173 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Seite 80 - An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin' arl the time o
Seite 95 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously ; ye breezes, waft her wide ; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Seite 123 - I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze And white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship tight and free— The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we. There's tempest in yon horned moon, And lightning in yon cloud ; But hark the music, mariners ! The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud, my boys, The lightning flashes free — While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Seite 136 - ... commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship; that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours...
Seite 107 - Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Seite 174 - Up with it high ; unfurl it wide ; that all the host may know How God hath humbled the proud house which wrought his church such woe. Then on...