 | Bridget Orr - 2001 - 380 pàgines
...the late War, when our Navy ingag'd the Dutch: a Day wherein the two most mighty and best-appointed Fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...Globe, the commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe."'9 The linkage of poetry and inter-state rivalry is persistent, with Dennis arguing some... | |
 | Blair Hoxby - 2008 - 332 pàgines
...Dryden recalled hearing the sound of the English and Dutch fleets engaging out to sea on a summer's day "wherein the two most mighty and best appointed...commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe," his view might have been tinged by his Royalist politics, but it would nevertheless have sounded unexceptionable... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pàgines
...fully treated of, and their several styles impartially imitated. An ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY It was that memorable day in the first summer of the late...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 pàgines
...national destiny: It was that memorable day, in the first Summer of the late war, when our Navy engag'd the Dutch: a day wherein the two most mighty and best...commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe. (Works xvI 1 : 8) The "riches of the Universe" spread themselves before the English imagination, even... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 pàgines
...fully treated of, and their several styles impartially imitated. An ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY It was that memorable day in the first summer of the late...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | 1905 - 1176 pàgines
...the two most mighty aad best appointed lleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command ot the greater half of the globe, the commerce of nations, and the riches of tlio universe; while these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel... | |
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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... 
