 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch ; a clay wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...our countrymen, under the happy conduct of his royal highness,8 went breaking, by little and little, into the line of the enemies ; the noise of the cannon... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch ; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...our countrymen, under the happy conduct of his royal highness,8 went breaking, by little and little, into the line of the enemies ; the noise of the cannon... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...the Dutch; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever f Been, disputed the command of the greater half of the globe, the commerce of nations, and the riches I of the universe: while these vast floating bodies, ' on either side, moved against each other in... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch ; * a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...countrymen, under the happy conduct of his Royal Highness, f went breaking, by little and little, into * The third of June, 1665. See the " Annus Mirabilis,"... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...lines, and our countrymen, under the happy conduct of bis Royal Highness, went breaking, little by little, into the line of the enemies, the noise of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch ;* a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...countrymen, under the happy conduct of his Royal Highness, t went breaking, by little and little, into » The third of June 1665. See the " Annus Mirabilis,"... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch ; a day wherein the two most mighty and best apppointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...and little, into the line of the enemies ; the noise of the cannon from both navies reached our ears about the city, so that all men being alarmed with... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...of the greater half of the globe, the commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. While the vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against...and little, into the line of the enemies, the noise of. the cannon from both navies reached our ears about the city, so that all men being alarmed with... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch, — a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen disputed the command...of nations, and the riches of the universe. While the vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in. parallel lines, and our countrymen,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch, — a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen disputed the command...of nations, and the riches of the universe. While the vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our countrymen,... | |
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IT was that memorable day in the first summer of the late war, when our Navy engaged the Dutch ; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command of the greater half of the globe, the commerce... 
