Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English ProseSir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender University Press, 1921 - 417 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... carrying his readers through the turmoil of battle with a precision of detail that converts fiction into fact , and alternating moments of danger and excitement with welcome glimpses of life below deck and the gun - room's bubbling fun ...
... carrying his readers through the turmoil of battle with a precision of detail that converts fiction into fact , and alternating moments of danger and excitement with welcome glimpses of life below deck and the gun - room's bubbling fun ...
Pagina viii
... carry a whetstone in his mouth to grind his teeth ; the meat so salt , that one would think after dinner his tongue had been powdered ten days . Oh ! thou hast a sweet life , Mariner , to be pinned in a few boards and to be within an ...
... carry a whetstone in his mouth to grind his teeth ; the meat so salt , that one would think after dinner his tongue had been powdered ten days . Oh ! thou hast a sweet life , Mariner , to be pinned in a few boards and to be within an ...
Pagina 6
... carried accuracy forward to the third of a degree [ 20 ] . Hadley's Quadrant brought observations within a minute of arc . But the Sextant with its powerful magnifier renders possible a reading to ten seconds of arc and makes even the ...
... carried accuracy forward to the third of a degree [ 20 ] . Hadley's Quadrant brought observations within a minute of arc . But the Sextant with its powerful magnifier renders possible a reading to ten seconds of arc and makes even the ...
Pagina 9
... carry Pilgrims from England to the coasts of Europe : and a poem by one of Malory's contemporaries [ The Libel of English Policie ] , describing Henry V's descent on Harfleur , says , Whan at Hampton he made the great dromons Which ...
... carry Pilgrims from England to the coasts of Europe : and a poem by one of Malory's contemporaries [ The Libel of English Policie ] , describing Henry V's descent on Harfleur , says , Whan at Hampton he made the great dromons Which ...
Pagina 14
... weighing about 3000 lbs . It was essentially a gun of position and was seldom carried at sea . acquyt themsylfe that within one ower fygth they had utterly 14 CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL WOLSEY A letter to the Bishop of Worcester.
... weighing about 3000 lbs . It was essentially a gun of position and was seldom carried at sea . acquyt themsylfe that within one ower fygth they had utterly 14 CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL WOLSEY A letter to the Bishop of Worcester.
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Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose (Classic Reprint) Geoffrey Callender Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Admiral afternoon Amyas anchor arms better boat boatswain brave brought cabin called captain carried Centurion Charles chest coast command Commodore crew danger deck dinner Dromon Duke of York Dutch Earl of Warwick Edward Pickering England English eyes favour fear fight fire fleet forecastle foresail friends galleys gave give Greek fire guns hand hath head HONEYW honour hour island John King King's land lieutenant lives look Lord Lord Sandwich mainsail mariners mast master mate MIZZEN morning Naseby navigation Navy never night officers passed Peggotty Pepys port quarter-deck ready Richard Stayner rope ROVEWELL sail sailors SAMUEL PEPYS seamen seemed sent Shepley ship ship's shore shot sick side sight Spaniards stood storm tempest things thou thought told took Trunnion unto vessel voyage waves weather wind Zoeterwoude
Populaire passages
Pagina 154 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pagina 22 - They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Pagina 153 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Pagina 232 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South.
Pagina 89 - But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said. Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
Pagina 151 - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else...
Pagina 91 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Pagina 152 - Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends and enemies, priests...
Pagina 88 - Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. 18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship ; 19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
Pagina 78 - It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation: let diaries, therefore, be brought in use.