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... rich and pleasant gums , grapes of such greatness , yet wilde , as France , Spain , nor Italy have no greater . . . . The climate so wholesome that we had not one sick since we touched the land here . The people naturally are most ...
... rich and pleasant gums , grapes of such greatness , yet wilde , as France , Spain , nor Italy have no greater . . . . The climate so wholesome that we had not one sick since we touched the land here . The people naturally are most ...
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... rich products of Virginia . Amongst these products was one which , once brought to England , rapidly gained favour . " There is an herbe which is sowed apart by itself , and is called by the inhabitants Yppowoc . The Spaniards generally ...
... rich products of Virginia . Amongst these products was one which , once brought to England , rapidly gained favour . " There is an herbe which is sowed apart by itself , and is called by the inhabitants Yppowoc . The Spaniards generally ...
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... rich booty won in these fights was very welcome ; but a larger motive existed besides the love of plunder , and in some perhaps was the strongest . " Let not any Englishman , " writes Ralegh , " of what religion soever , have other ...
... rich booty won in these fights was very welcome ; but a larger motive existed besides the love of plunder , and in some perhaps was the strongest . " Let not any Englishman , " writes Ralegh , " of what religion soever , have other ...
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... rich prize was brought home to Dartmouth . Of course the sailors had managed to pillage something before Burroughs was able to take formal possession of the ship in her Majesty's name . It now remained to divide the spoil amongst those ...
... rich prize was brought home to Dartmouth . Of course the sailors had managed to pillage something before Burroughs was able to take formal possession of the ship in her Majesty's name . It now remained to divide the spoil amongst those ...
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... Europe with wonder and admiration . To gain a like rich kingdom for his Queen , to fill her exchequer , to extend her power , was Ralegh's ambition . But 1593 ] GUIANA . 87 he wished to do it 86 [ 1593 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
... Europe with wonder and admiration . To gain a like rich kingdom for his Queen , to fill her exchequer , to extend her power , was Ralegh's ambition . But 1593 ] GUIANA . 87 he wished to do it 86 [ 1593 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
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Page 94 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : (Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak), — such was my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 57 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 162 - Your words cannot condemn me ; my innocency is my defence. Prove one of these things wherewith you have charged me, and I will confess the whole indictment, and that I am the horriblest traitor that ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand thousand torments. " Attorney. Nay, I will prove all : thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart.
Page 247 - Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 73 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Page 118 - Table;* her Bosom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were small, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was stately, her Manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 119 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 56 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Page 118 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...