 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 стор.
...very loving friend, « T. HOWARD.* " SIR, — I will not write unto her majesty before more be done. Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. I pray to God that the forces on the land be strong enough to answer so puissant a force. There is... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1853 - 454 стор.
...very loving friend, " T. HOWARD.* " SIR, — I will not write unto her majesty before more be done. Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. I pray to God that the forces on the land be strong enough to answer so puissant a force. There is... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 574 стор.
...despairingly to Walsingham of the want of ammunition ; saying, with the true modesty of the brave, " Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little." In that fleet the " mighty ships and of great strength," were as four to one compared with the larger... | |
 | Frank Jones (vicar of St. Paul, Forest Hill.) - 1878 - 504 стор.
...the Spanish fleet.' A short reference is then made to the fight, while in a postscript he adds : ' Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. I pray to God that the forces on the land be strong enough to match so puissant a force. There is not... | |
 | Frank Jones - 1878 - 418 стор.
...the Spanish fleet.' A short reference is then made to the fight, while in a postscript he adds : ' Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. I pray to God that the forces on the land be strong enough to match so puissant a force. There is not... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1891 - 428 стор.
...imagined. Thanksgivings went up from * Lord Howard wrote to Walsingham, "Their force is wonderfully great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little." tThe North Sea. J See Kingsley's novel, "Westward Ho!" every church in the land, and the love and admiration... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 464 стор.
...somewhat despairingly to Walsingham of the want of ammunition, saying, with the true modesty of the brave, "Their force is wonderful great and strong, and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little." In that fleet the "mighty ships and of great strength," were as four to one compared with the larger... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 594 стор.
...mighty ships and great strength ; yet we doubt not, by God's good assistance, to oppress them . . . Their force is wonderful great and strong ; and yet we pluck their feathers little by little.' Drake, writing on the same day, is equally brief : — ' God hath given us so good... | |
 | George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe, James Richard Thursfield - 1897 - 414 стор.
...of mighty ships and great strength ; yet we doubt not, by God's good assistance to press them. . . . Their force is wonderful great and strong; and yet we pluck their feathers little by little." Drake, writing on the same day, is equally brief : — " God hath given us so good... | |
 | Edward Kirk Rawson - 1899 - 498 стор.
...Armada was not invincible. Howard was indeed, as he wrote later to the Queen, accomplishing something. " Their force is wonderful, great and strong : and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little." Happy it might have been for Spain had the Marquis of Santa Cruz been in command, a seaman by profession,... | |
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Their force is wonderful great and strong; and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. 
