 ... commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship; that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight and with so great a navy they were not able to...  Littell's Living Age - Page 871855Full view - About this book
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...or other, but as she was moved with the waves and billow of the sea : commanded the Master-gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and...victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight, and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours' time, fifteen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1906 - 360 pages
...works all shot in pieces, and the ship herself, unable to move, was settling slowly in the sea ; the vast fleet of Spaniards lying round her in a ring...were not able to take her, having had above fifteen hours time, above ten thousand men, and fifty-three men-ofwar to perform it withal ; and persuaded... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 pages
...not able to move one way or the other, but as she was moved with the waves and billows of the sea,) commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a...victory to the Spaniards — seeing in so many hours fight and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours time, above... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - 1906 - 448 pages
...possessed by the enemy, who were now all cast in a ring round about him, commanded the mastergunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and...victory to the Spaniards : seeing in so many hours' fight, and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours' time, above... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 630 pages
...galleons. Pronounced like "allion" in "medallion" (derived hom.galea). p. 129. Verse xi. Sir Richard "commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a...thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the 1 See RL Stevenson, " The English Admirals," in Virginibus Puerisque, p. 2c5 : " I must tell one more... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 628 pages
...galleons. Pronounced like "allion" in "medallion" (derived homgalea). p. 129. Verse xi. Sir Richard "commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a...thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the 1 See RL Stevenson, " The English Admirals," in Virginibus Puerisque, p. 205 : " I must tell one more... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
.../•<« not able to move one way or other but as she was moved by the waves and billows of the sea, — you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you...JOHNSON has, I trust, been so developed in the course secing in so many hours' fight, and with so great a navy, they were not able to take her, having had... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 528 pages
...defense. Sir Richard finding himself in this distress, and unable any longer to make resistance, .... commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a...might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards. It was then that the Spanish admiral offered honorable ransom and a return to England for all; for... | |
 | W. B. Whall - 1910 - 130 pages
...last fight of the Revenge, under Grenville, we find that " Syr Richard . . . commanded the maister gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the shippe." GREMIO : Two thousand ducats by the year, of Argosy. land ; Galliasse. My land amounts not... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...Revenge not able to move one way or other but as she was moved by the waves and billows of the sea, — ilful he to note the card* Of prudent lore, ami sink the ship, that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in... | |
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