 ... her himself rather than desert his post without orders. Just then, perhaps the Merry Monarch was chasing a moth round the supper-table with the ladies of his court. When Raleigh sailed into Cadiz, and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 39edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 316 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this bravado better than the wisest dispositions to ensure victory ; it comes from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler heroes, but he never made... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...innocent.— SPEDDING, JAMES, 1878, An Aceount of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon, vol. I, p. 436. God has made nobler heroes, but he never made a finer gentleman than Walter Raleigh. — STEVENSON, ROBERT Louis, 1881, Virginians Puerisque and Other Papers. The New World's sons, from... | |
 | Fanny Eliza Coe - 1912 - 334 pages
...said he, "gives me no fear. It is a sharp medicine, to cure me of all my troubles." Stevenson says, "God has made nobler heroes, but he never made a finer gentleman than Walter Raleigh." CHAMPLAIN, THE FATHER OF NEW FRANCE IN the very year when Francis Drake was making his first voyage... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this bravado better than the wisest dispositions to ensure victory ; it comes from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler heroes, but He never made... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1914 - 278 pages
...of men and the times. Page 596. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Ptierisqw and Other Papers. God has made nobler heroes, but he never made a finer gentleman than Walter Raleigh. Page 598. Donald G. Mitchell, 1890, English Lands, Letters, and Kings, from Elizabeth to Anne, page... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - 312 pages
...insulting trumpets. I like this bravado better than the wisest dispositions to insure victory; it 10 conies from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler...discovered a startling eagerness for battle, and courted 15 war like a mistress. When the news came to Essex before Cadiz that the attack had been decided,... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - 312 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this...than the wisest dispositions to insure victory; it 10 comes from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler heroes, but He never made a finer gentleman... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1916 - 284 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this bravado better than the wise it dispositions to insure victory; it comes from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this bravado better than the wisest dispositions to ensure victory; it comes from the heart and goes to it. God has made nobler heroes, but he never made... | |
 | 1878 - 862 pages
...and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets. I like this...made a finer gentleman than Walter Raleigh. And as pur admirals were full of heroic superstitions, and had a strutting and vainglorious style of fight,... | |
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