Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English ProseSir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender University Press, 1921 - 417 pagina's |
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Pagina 28
... light , and to preserve certain memorable exploits , of late years by our English nation achieved , from the greedy and devouring jaws of oblivion : to gather likewise , and as it were to incorporate into one body , the torn and ...
... light , and to preserve certain memorable exploits , of late years by our English nation achieved , from the greedy and devouring jaws of oblivion : to gather likewise , and as it were to incorporate into one body , the torn and ...
Pagina 29
... light value and moment unto me . For ( to contain myself only within the bounds of this present discourse , and in the midst thereof to begin ) will it not in all posterity be as great a renown unto our English nation , to have been the ...
... light value and moment unto me . For ( to contain myself only within the bounds of this present discourse , and in the midst thereof to begin ) will it not in all posterity be as great a renown unto our English nation , to have been the ...
Pagina 32
... light ; and the lode - star of experience ( to wit , those great exploits and voyages laid up in store and recorded ) ... lights and inducements , or if they had any inkling at all , it was as misty as they found the Northern Seas , and so ...
... light ; and the lode - star of experience ( to wit , those great exploits and voyages laid up in store and recorded ) ... lights and inducements , or if they had any inkling at all , it was as misty as they found the Northern Seas , and so ...
Pagina 33
... light their candle at our torch . Principal Navigations . II THE CORPOSANT ABOUT the beginning of January , [ 1556 ] we departed thence [ from San Domingo ] towards the bay of Mexico and New Spain , toward which we set our course , and ...
... light their candle at our torch . Principal Navigations . II THE CORPOSANT ABOUT the beginning of January , [ 1556 ] we departed thence [ from San Domingo ] towards the bay of Mexico and New Spain , toward which we set our course , and ...
Pagina 36
... light , much like unto the light of a little candle , which the Spaniards called the Cuerpo santo , and said it was S. Elmo , whom they take to be the advocate of sailors . At the which sight the Spaniards fell down upon their knees and ...
... light , much like unto the light of a little candle , which the Spaniards called the Cuerpo santo , and said it was S. Elmo , whom they take to be the advocate of sailors . At the which sight the Spaniards fell down upon their knees and ...
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Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose (Classic Reprint) Geoffrey Callender Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
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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.