| Edward Hawke Locker - 1831 - 436 pągines
...the 20th of July, 1588, the long expected Armada was descried off the Eddystone rock, advancing in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder : their whole force amounted to one hundred and thirty ships of war, carrying thirty thousand troops,... | |
| Thomas Lathbury - 1840 - 188 pągines
...attacking the English fleet in the harbour. He had been ordered to sail towards * TURNER'S Elizabeth, 675. the Channel; but in consequence of the fisherman's...the Duke of Medina changed his course and proceeded * LINGAHD, v., 499. t CARTE, iii., 626. towards Calais, in the Lope, undoubtedly, of being succoured... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1860 - 582 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant, in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their gaudy standards and their martial music, moved... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 598 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant, in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their gaudy standards and their martial music, moved... | |
| John Tillotson - 1865 - 510 pągines
...display. It was a grand naval pageant, a triumph — only the victory had not been achieved. Disposed in the form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, their gilded, towered, floating citadels, fluttered with embroidered flags; and while martial music... | |
| George Etell Sargent - 1866 - 392 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their gaudy standards and their martial music, moved... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1867 - 596 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant, in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their gaudy standards and their martial music, moved... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1888 - 586 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant, in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their gaudy standards and their martial music, moved... | |
| John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 pągines
...was a grand naval pageant — a trinmphant victory— only the victory had not yet been won. Disposed in the form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, were gilded, towered, floating citadels, fluttering with blazoned and broidered banners ; with martial... | |
| George E. Sargent, George Etell Sargent - 1871 - 296 pągines
...appearance. The ships seemed arranged for a pageant in honour of a victory already won. Disposed in form of a crescent, the horns of which were seven miles asunder, those gilded, towered, floating castles, with their goodly standards and their martial music, moved... | |
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