The English Voyages of the Sixteenth CenturyJ. MacLehose, 1906 - 204 páginas |
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Admiral adventure America ancient Armada brought Cabot captains Cathay Century Christian coast colony Columbus command death deeds discovery Drake drama Elizabeth Elizabethan age Empire England English Voyages expedition explored fleet Frobisher gave gentlemen Gilbert give gold Golden Hind Grenville hath heart heaven Hispaniola hundred imagination Indians island John Hawkins King Henry King of Portugal King of Spain labour land later learned literature lives Lord luyt Majesty Marlowe Master ment merchant nation nautical naval navigation Navy never Nombre de Dios North East North West Pacific piracy pirates poetry poets port Portugal Portuguese possession Prince Queen Queen Elizabeth's men reign Richard Hakluyt sail sailors says Hakluyt scheme seamen Sebastian Cabot Shakespeare ships Sir Richard Grenville Spaniards Spanish Straits Tamburlaine things Thomas Cavendish Thomas Doughty thought tion trade travellers treasure unto Virginia West Indies West passage
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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 2 - 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. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the...
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 58 - I will not forsake my little company going homeward, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.
Página 125 - Apollo's sacred tree, You it may see A poet's brows To crown, that may sing there. Thy voyages attend, Industrious Hakluyt, Whose reading shall inflame Men to seek fame, And much commend, To after times thy wit.
Página 169 - I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair...
Página 162 - What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th' accents that are ours? Or who can tell for what great work in hand The greatness of our style is now ordained? What powers it shall bring in, what spirits command ? What thoughts let out, what humours keep...
Página 165 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know; Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene: And later times things more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath scene?