The English Voyages of the Sixteenth CenturyJ. MacLehose and sons, 1906 - 206 páginas |
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... Frobisher's voyages to the North West had awakened hopes of gold to be found in that inhospitable region ; and Hawkins and Drake , by their exploits in the Spanish Indies , had begun a new era in English navigation , and given a new ...
... Frobisher's voyages to the North West had awakened hopes of gold to be found in that inhospitable region ; and Hawkins and Drake , by their exploits in the Spanish Indies , had begun a new era in English navigation , and given a new ...
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... Frobisher were learning their elements in trade and piracy on the coast of Guinea . With all its evil lessons of cruelty and craft , it was a school that fostered reckless courage and self - confidence in its pupils , and gave leaders ...
... Frobisher were learning their elements in trade and piracy on the coast of Guinea . With all its evil lessons of cruelty and craft , it was a school that fostered reckless courage and self - confidence in its pupils , and gave leaders ...
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... Frobisher and Davis . Gilbert's argument is so full and reasonable , so fair in its treatment of objections , and so strong in its appeal to tradition and authority , that it is no wonder if many were convinced by it . America , he says ...
... Frobisher and Davis . Gilbert's argument is so full and reasonable , so fair in its treatment of objections , and so strong in its appeal to tradition and authority , that it is no wonder if many were convinced by it . America , he says ...
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... they should beat the bush , and other men catch the birds . ' The enterprise is reserved for the English , who have most to gain by it . And Gilbert concludes ( L- Gilbert's creed . The three Voyages of Martin Frobisher 41 THE VOYAGERS.
... they should beat the bush , and other men catch the birds . ' The enterprise is reserved for the English , who have most to gain by it . And Gilbert concludes ( L- Gilbert's creed . The three Voyages of Martin Frobisher 41 THE VOYAGERS.
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... Frobisher set sail . The pinnance was wrecked , and the barks separated , but Frobisher in the Gabriel reached Meta Incognita , or Cumberland's Island , made acquaintance with the Esquimaux , and partly explored the inlet to which he ...
... Frobisher set sail . The pinnance was wrecked , and the barks separated , but Frobisher in the Gabriel reached Meta Incognita , or Cumberland's Island , made acquaintance with the Esquimaux , and partly explored the inlet to which he ...
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Página 180 - It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death.
Página 2 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is ; or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Página 180 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont...
Página 173 - The true artificer will not run away from Nature, as he were afraid of her, or depart from life and the likeness of Truth, but speak to the capacity of his hearers. And though his language differ from the vulgar somewhat, it shall not fly from all humanity, with the Tamerlanes and Tamer-Chams of the late age, which had nothing in them but the scenical strutting and furious vociferation to warrant them to the ignorant gapers.
Página 162 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Página 128 - Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America, and the Islands adjacent unto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: And certaine notes of advertisements for observations, necessarie for such as shall hereafter make the like attempt, With two mappes annexed hereunto, for the plainer understanding of the whole matter.
Página 161 - I shall make you learn my favourite bit from an old poet, — ' Why should our pride make such a stir to be And be forgot ? What good is like to this, To do worthy the writing, and to write Worthy the reading and the world's delight ?' What I want, Rosy, is to do worthy the writing, and to write out myself what I have done. A man must work to do that, my pet.
Página 13 - VII. who then reigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine than human, to sail by the west into the east where spices grow, by a way that was never known before...
Página 190 - Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies ; Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
Página 169 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl...