 | William Russell - 1802 - 542 sidor
...was informed of its approach by a Scotch pirate, saw it, just as he could get out of Plymouth Sound, coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...extremity of one division to that of the other. The lofty masts, the swelling sails, and the towering 'prows of the Spanish galleons, seem impossible to... | |
 | 1803 - 818 sidor
...extremely to the safety of the fleet. Eflingham 1S03.J Account of the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. had just time to get out of port, when he saw the...coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form or' a crescent, and stretching the distance or seven miles from the extremity of one division to that... | |
 | 1904 - 518 sidor
...approach ; another fortunate event which contributed extremely to the safety of the fleet. Effingbam had just time to get out of port, when he saw the...the extremity of one division to that of the Other. " Effingbam gave orders not to come to close fight with the Spaniards, but to cannonade them at a distance,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 480 sidor
...and Effingham had scarcely.time to get out of port, when he saw the armada advancing towards -him, in the form of a crescent, and stretching the distance of seven miles, from one extremity to the other. Effingham gave orders to cannonade them at a distance, and to wait the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 346 sidor
...harbour. But Effingham, the English admiral, was very well prepared to receive them ; he was just got out of port when he saw the Spanish Armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form of a half moon, and stretching seven miles from one extremity to _the other. However, the English admiral,... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 552 sidor
...approach :c Another fortunate event which contributed extremely to the safety of the fleet. Effingham had just time to get out of port, when he saw the...stretching the distance of seven miles from the extremity oi one division to that of the other. THE writers of that age raise their style by a pompous description... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1808 - 342 sidor
...harbour. But Effingham, the English admiral, was very well prepared to receive them; he was just got out of port when he saw the Spanish armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form of a half moon, and stretching seven miles from one extremity to the other. However, the English admiral,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 sidor
...famous armada arrived-in the Channel, disposing itself in the form of a crescent, and stretching to the distance of seven miles from the extremity of .one division to that of the other. As it proceeded up the Channel, Eflingham with the English fleet, gave orders to avoid a close fight,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 386 sidor
...harbour. But Effingham, the English admiral, was very well prepared to receive them ; he was just got out of port when he saw the Spanish armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form of a half moon, and stretching seven miles from one extremity to the other. However, the English admiral,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 sidor
...approach c : Another fortunate event which contributed extremely to the safety of the fleet. Effingham had just time to get out of port, when he saw the...division to that of the other. THE writers of that age raise their style by a pompous description of this spectacle : The most magnificent that had ever appeared... | |
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Armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form of a crescent, and stretching the distance of seven miles from the extremity of one division to that of the other. 
