Sir Francis DrakeMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 209 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 75 - I must needs be plain with you. I have taken that in hand that I know not in the world how to go through withal ; it passeth my capacity, it hath even bereaved me of my wits to think on it.
עמוד 170 - We have the army of Spain before us and mind, with the grace of God, to wrestle a pull with him. There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
עמוד 138 - If her Majesty and your Lordships," he wrote, "think that the King of Spain meaneth any invasion in England, then doubtless his force is and will be great in Spain: and thereon he will make his groundwork or foundation, whereby the Prince of Parma may have the better entrance, which, in mine own judgment, is most to be feared.
עמוד 87 - ... them. Hopeless and exhausted, they desisted from their efforts, and in solemn preparation for the end, took the sacrament together. Then in the good old Puritan fashion, to aid the Lord, Drake made jettison of guns and spices worth their weight in silver, till lo ! in the midst of their pious labor the wind changed, and, like the breath of the Saviour in answer to their prayers, gently slid them from the rock. It was the gravest danger of all their voyage, and for nearly two months more, as they...
עמוד 162 - H clearing themselves with their boats from every ship that attempted to lay them aboard. In wonder and admiration the Spaniards still pressed closer till the wind began to freshen. Then at last they learnt the meaning of the strange tactics of the enemy's two starboard divisions. While Howard and Frobisher were holding the Spaniards over the brink of the pit, Drake and Hawkins had laboriously secured a vantage-ground from which to thrust them down ; and ere Sidonia had well grasped the sudden jeopardy...
עמוד 76 - Majestie, to strike their topsails upon the bunt, as a token of his willing and glad mind, to shew his dutiful obedience to her highness, whom he acknowledged to have full interest and right in that new \ /' discovery; and withal in remembrance of his honourable friend...
עמוד 30 - Before I depart,' he had told a Spanish prisoner after the failure of his initial assault on Nombre de Dios, 'if God give me life and leave, I mean to reap some of your harvest which you get out of the earth and send into Spain to trouble all the earth.
עמוד 150 - ... the fleet of Spaniards is somewhat about a hundred sails ; many great ships, but truly I think not half of them men of war.
עמוד 172 - Parma knew it well ; and when Drake, leaving the Armada to the mercies of the westerly gales, struggled back through the tempest to face him ere the fine weather returned, he broke up his camp at Dunkirk and abandoned the enterprise. Howard knew it too ; and when on his return from the chase he was suddenly summoned to Court, he was careful to furnish himself with a testimonial from Drake that he had behaved well to, his lieutenant and taken his advice throughout. It was one of Drake's captains who...
עמוד 112 - very little to the liking of the King of Spain." That, with the calm request for orders, was his comment on a feat which changed the destinies of Europe. At its fullest flood he had stemmed the tide of Spanish empire. It was no less a thing than that. A few months ago all Europe had been cowering in confused alarm before the shadow of a new Roman empire. Ever since the first triumph of Luther, the cause of Reformation had been steadily losing ground; on England and the Low Countries hung its only...