The mariners of England, stories of deeds of daring |
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admiral afterwards anchor Anson Armada attack batteries battle BATTLE OF SLUYS Bellerophon Blake boats brave British fleet broadside Brunswick cannonade canvas Captain Baker Captain Cooke Captain Hamilton Captain Thrupp captured carried Centurion command commodore courage crew Culloden deck defeats the French Didon Droits-de-l'Homme Dutch enemy enemy's engaged England English fell fight fire flag forecastle French frigate's frigates gallant galleasses galleons Généreux Goodenough gunboats guns half-past harbour hauled Hermione hoisted honour hour Howard immediately island killed larboard Leander leeward Lieutenant Lord Lord Thomas Howard lost Magindanao Mariners of England masts Megæra men-of-war morning naval Nelson night o'clock officers ordered Orion Phoenix pinnace port Puerto Cabello quarter quarter-deck Revenge rigging round shot sail sailors seamen shattered ship ship's shore shot side signal soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish fleet spars squadron starboard stern Swiftsure tack took Tromp vessels victory wind wounded wreck
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Стр. 41 - I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do. With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die ! " And he fell upon their decks, and he died.
Стр. 49 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water : and though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he...
Стр. 41 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Стр. 24 - And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent. Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth; High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north ; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still; All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill...
Стр. 101 - The boy — oh ! where was he? -Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young faithful heart.
Стр. 100 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Стр. 24 - Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north ; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still: All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill : Till the proud Peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales, Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light...
Стр. 24 - Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the- wind the Wrekin's crest of light, Till broad and fierce the star came forth on Ely's stately fane, And tower and hamlet rose in arms o'er all the boundless plain ; Till Belvoir's lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent, And Lincoln sped the message on o'er the wide vale of Trent; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.
Стр. 84 - ... on the quarterdeck of a spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen ; who put them, with the greatest sang froid, under his arm.