The life of ... sir Francis Drake [by J. Campbell]. Together with the historical and genealogical account of sir F. Drake's family, and extracts from Nicholson's History of Cumberland [ed. by sir T.T. Fuller-Eliott-Drake].1828 |
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Página 18 - To this great ship, which round the world has run, And match'd in race the chariot of the sun ; • This Pythagorean ship (for it may claim, Without presumption, so deserved a name) ; By knowledge once, and transformation now, In her new shape, this sacred port allow. Drake and his ship could not have wished from Fate A happier station, or more blest estate. For lo ! a seat of endless rest is given To her in Oxford, and to him in heaven.
Página 35 - Thus an extempore performance, scarce heard to be begun before we hear it is ended, comes off with better applause, or miscarries with less disgrace, than a long-studied and openly premeditated action. Besides, we see how great spirits, having mounted to the highest pitch of performance, afterwards strain and break 'their credits in striving to go beyond it. Lastly, God oftentimes leaves the brightest men in an eclipse, to show that they do but borrow their lustre from his reflection.
Página 25 - Where for the sympathy of their religion hoping to find succor and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks, and those other 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...
Página 24 - They were not ashamed to publish, in sundry languages in print, great victories in words, which they pretended to have obtained against this realm, and spread the same in a most false sort over all parts of France, Italy, and elsewhere...
Página 25 - Ireland, where, for the sympathy of their barbarous religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks, and those other 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...
Página 51 - The prince of these people was named Pedro, to whom Drake presented a fine cutlass from his side, which he saw the Indian greatly admired. Pedro, in return, gave him four large wedges of gold, which Drake threw into the common stock...
Página 15 - The other party alledged, that in fact he was no better than a pirate; that of all others it least became a trading nation to encourage such practices; that it was not only a direct breach of all our late treaties with Spain, but likewise of our old leagues with the house of burgundy ; and that the consequences would be much more fatal than the benefits reaped from it could be advantageous. Things continued in this uncertainty during the remainder of 1380, and the spring of the succeeding year.
Página 57 - Drake; which probably was the reason why he did not bear these disappointments so well as he otherwise would have done. A strong sense of them is supposed to have thrown him into a melancholy, which occasioned a bloody flux ; and of this he died on board his own ship, near the town of Nombre de Dios, in the West Indies, on the 88th of January, 1596.
Página 24 - 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...
Página 5 - April, and entered the river De la Plata, where he lost the company of two of his ships ; but meeting them again, and taking out their provisions, he turned them adrift. On the 29th of May, he entered the port of St.