Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign: Of Their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures, and Services, in the Infant State of the British NavyJ. Murray, 1845 - 495 pages |
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... English Regent and the French Cordilier , being nearly of the same size ( say , about a thousand tons ) : they grappled together , took fire , were blown up , and all on board , seven or eight hundred in each ship , perished . This was ...
... English Regent and the French Cordilier , being nearly of the same size ( say , about a thousand tons ) : they grappled together , took fire , were blown up , and all on board , seven or eight hundred in each ship , perished . This was ...
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... English fleet as- sembled at that anchorage . A fight ensued , and the Mary Rose was sunk , and , as the French say , the Great Harry had a narrow escape ; but the English accounts affirm that the Mary Rose was upset by a roll of the ...
... English fleet as- sembled at that anchorage . A fight ensued , and the Mary Rose was sunk , and , as the French say , the Great Harry had a narrow escape ; but the English accounts affirm that the Mary Rose was upset by a roll of the ...
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... English ships , goods , and seamen , found in his ports , which in fact was considered the first step to a declaration of war . This fleet consisted of twenty - one ships and pinnaces , in one of which , the Primrose , Martin Frobisher ...
... English ships , goods , and seamen , found in his ports , which in fact was considered the first step to a declaration of war . This fleet consisted of twenty - one ships and pinnaces , in one of which , the Primrose , Martin Frobisher ...
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... English Channel , under the arrogant title of the Invincible Armada . That he should be selected to fill this eminent situation was owing entirely to his character , which was that of ranking among the few choice seamen that England ...
... English Channel , under the arrogant title of the Invincible Armada . That he should be selected to fill this eminent situation was owing entirely to his character , which was that of ranking among the few choice seamen that England ...
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... English squadron then stood over to the Azores , and made an attempt to land at Fayal , which the Earl of Cumberland had got possession of , the preceding year , and had given it back to the Spanish authorities . In the mean time the ...
... English squadron then stood over to the Azores , and made an attempt to land at Fayal , which the Earl of Cumberland had got possession of , the preceding year , and had given it back to the Spanish authorities . In the mean time the ...
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Page 429 - 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...
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Page 379 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 470 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 469 - This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 41.
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Page 470 - PEMBROKE reared ; Which still records, beyond the pencil's power, The silent sorrows of a parting hour ; Still to the musing pilgrim points the place Her sainted spirit most delights to trace ? Thus, with the manly glow of honest pride, O'er his dead son the gallant ORMOND sighed.
Page 406 - I do not hear yet, that you have spoken one word against me ; here is no treason of mine done. If my lord Cobham be a traitor, what is that to me ? Attorney. All that he did was by thy instigation, thou viper ; for I thou thee, thou traitor. Ralegh. It becometh not a man of quality and virtue to call me so; but I take comfort in it, it is all you can do.