| 1805 - 622 pages
...round the world, and thou shult run Along, around it as the sun. The straits of time too narrow arc for thee ; Launch forth into an undiscovered sea,...for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot', me. THE earliest notice which we have ct' London as a commercial city, during the Saxon domination, we may... | |
| Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...too narrow are for thee ; Launch forth into an undiscover'd sea, And steer the endless course of vast Eternity ! Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot me ! UPON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF BARCARRES. 'T IS folly all that can be said By living mortals of th'... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...too narrow are for thee ; Launch forth into an undiscover'd sea, And steer the endless course of vast Eternity ! Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot me ! UPON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF BARCARRES. 'T IS folly all that can be said By living mortals of th'... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...too narrow are for thee ; Launch forth into an undiscover'd sea, And steer the endless course of vast Eternity ! Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot me ! UPON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF BALCARRES. Tis folly all that can be said By living mortals of the'... | |
| Percy Society - English literature - 1840 - 584 pages
...too narrow are for thee, Launch forth into an undiscovered sea, And steer the endless course of vast eternity. Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot me. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. THE following is taken from "Wit and Drollery," 12mo. Lond.... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...too narrow are for thee, Launch forth into an undiscovered sea, And steer the endless course of vast eternity. Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot me. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. THE following is taken from " Wit and Drollery," 12mo. Lond.... | |
| William D'Avenant - 1873 - 462 pages
...de Dios, Rio Grand, Sancta Martha, Rio de Hacha, Venta Cruz, Veragua, ' THE PLAYHOUSE TO BE LET. , The streights of Time too narrow are for thee ; Launch...papers of Arthur Collins, Esq.. the peerage writer, and \Villiam Hohnan, Esq.. of Halsteail, in Essex, who wrote concerning the antiquities of that county,... | |
| William D'Avenant - 1874 - 454 pages
...chariot to see, Which Phaeton so rashly brake, Yet what could that say more than these remains of Drake? The streights of Time too narrow are for thee ; Launch...papers of Arthur Collins, Esq., the peerage writer, and \Villiam Holman, Esq., of Halstead, in Essex, who wrote concerning the antiquities of that county,—5... | |
| Edward Arber - English literature - 1879 - 668 pages
...narrow are for thee ; Launch forth into an undiscovered sea ! And steer the endless course of vast Eternity! Take for thy Sail, this verse ! and for thy Pilot, me ! [JAMES WRIGHT.] The second generation of English professional Actors^ 1625-1670 AD [Hisioritt Histriatiifti.... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 344 pages
...narrow are for thee — Launch forth into an undiscover'd sea, And steer the endless course of vast eternity : Take for thy sail, this verse, and for thy pilot, me.' O 2 DRAKE'S FAMOUS VOYAGE. [NARRATIVE BY FRANCIS PRETTY, ONE OF DRAKE'S GENTLEMEN AT ARMS.] The FAMOUS... | |
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