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... death . From this time forward , for many years , the aim of European navigators was not to explore or settle America , rather to discover a passage whereby America might be avoided , and a way opened to the lands beyond . But the ...
... death . From this time forward , for many years , the aim of European navigators was not to explore or settle America , rather to discover a passage whereby America might be avoided , and a way opened to the lands beyond . But the ...
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... death , ' the island was peopled with imported negroes , under whose government at last it fell . In the full Nine- teenth Century , the gold - laced officials of the Black Republic have been known to retire by night to the mountains ...
... death , ' the island was peopled with imported negroes , under whose government at last it fell . In the full Nine- teenth Century , the gold - laced officials of the Black Republic have been known to retire by night to the mountains ...
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... death of his father ; he failed to penetrate the North , and coasted America southward to Florida . But this southern ten- dency , which might bring England into conflict with Spain , was not encouraged by the King ; and when Henry VIII ...
... death of his father ; he failed to penetrate the North , and coasted America southward to Florida . But this southern ten- dency , which might bring England into conflict with Spain , was not encouraged by the King ; and when Henry VIII ...
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... gold , the beginnings of colonisation , and the gradual entanglement of England in a death - struggle with Spain are developments intimately con- nected with the voyages to the North West . The 36 THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
... gold , the beginnings of colonisation , and the gradual entanglement of England in a death - struggle with Spain are developments intimately con- nected with the voyages to the North West . The 36 THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
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... death of Captain Edward Fenton , in 1603 , some days after Queen Elizabeth's , ' how God Elizabeth's set up a generation of military men , both by men . Sir Humphrey Gilbert . sea and land , which began and expired with the reign of ...
... death of Captain Edward Fenton , in 1603 , some days after Queen Elizabeth's , ' how God Elizabeth's set up a generation of military men , both by men . Sir Humphrey Gilbert . sea and land , which began and expired with the reign of ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 169 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl...