Sir Walter RaleighMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1904 - 292 pages |
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Page 78
... Howard of Effingham , whom the Queen had placed in supreme command at sea , disposed of some sixty - six sail in the west , where Drake was watching the highway south ; while Lord Henry Seymour , who commanded the eastern squadron of ...
... Howard of Effingham , whom the Queen had placed in supreme command at sea , disposed of some sixty - six sail in the west , where Drake was watching the highway south ; while Lord Henry Seymour , who commanded the eastern squadron of ...
Page 81
... Howard , to his eternal credit , took the risk of disobeying , and on the 12th of July the Armada once more put to sea . A week later , while his men were enjoying a short spell of leave on shore , news reached the Admiral , during the ...
... Howard , to his eternal credit , took the risk of disobeying , and on the 12th of July the Armada once more put to sea . A week later , while his men were enjoying a short spell of leave on shore , news reached the Admiral , during the ...
Page 85
... Howard's report , three Spanish galleons were sunk and four or five driven ashore . The rest , no longer a fleet but a confused rout of half - disabled shipping , bore away to the north - east as evening fell , to encounter the violent ...
... Howard's report , three Spanish galleons were sunk and four or five driven ashore . The rest , no longer a fleet but a confused rout of half - disabled shipping , bore away to the north - east as evening fell , to encounter the violent ...
Page 96
... Howard , for Drake was at present also out of favour , the victim of jealous intrigues , and Raleigh's place was taken by his cousin , the immortal Sir Richard Grenville , who sailed in the Revenge . On this occasion the Spaniards had ...
... Howard , for Drake was at present also out of favour , the victim of jealous intrigues , and Raleigh's place was taken by his cousin , the immortal Sir Richard Grenville , who sailed in the Revenge . On this occasion the Spaniards had ...
Page 98
... Howard's decision to refuse action with his little squadron . Undoubtedly he was right in making the safety of the Queen's ships his first care . But Sir Richard Grenville , -who will venture to assert that he was not right also , if ...
... Howard's decision to refuse action with his little squadron . Undoubtedly he was right in making the safety of the Queen's ships his first care . But Sir Richard Grenville , -who will venture to assert that he was not right also , if ...
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Page 292 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 292 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 232 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my...
Page 85 - Moncado, with the galleys of which he was captain; and from Calais, driven with squibs from their anchors, were chased out of the sight of England round about Scotland and Ireland; where, for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks...
Page 85 - ... that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent back again to their countries, to witness and recount the worthy achievements of their invincible and dreadful navy, of which the number of soldiers, the fearful burthen...
Page 233 - ... for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 59 - Give me leave, therefore, without offence, always to live and die in this mind: that he is not worthy to live at all that, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal, wherefore in this behalf mutare vel timere sperno.
Page 123 - ... without bush or stubble, all fair green grass, the ground of hard sand easy to march on, either for horse or foot, the deer crossing in every path, the birds towards...