Word: sea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other great expedition seems to have been so hampered and delayed as that of the Spanish Armada. The army lay in readiness for over a year before the fleet was in a sea-worthy condition. Finally, in the last of May, 1588, the fleet sailed for England. It was compsed of 130 vessels, 3200 guns, 10,000 sailors, and 20,000 soldiers. to oppose them England had collected 200 small ships and about 10,000 soldiers. We can little imagine now what a terror the Spanish name then possessed. Philip II. was the greatest mouarch then living and the Spanish...
...anxiously awaited Parma who was to bring up the main body of the soldiers. Parma. however, was penned up by the Dutch fleet and effectually kept from joining the expedition. When night came the English sent fireships among the enemies' ships. The Spaniards became panic stricken and put to sea. A stormy wind drove many of them to the south, while the rest, eighty-six in number, were attacked and partially destroyed by the English. Little hope now remained of joining Parma; much less of conquering England. Their one care now was to get home. But to return...
...North Sea Watch is strikingly picturesque. A thousand spiritual expressions of shore, sea and sky enter it as well as the cry of human sorrow. It might have been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...
...Unreconstructed" is an article by Mr. John T. Morse, Jr. founded upon Reuben Davis' recollections of Mississippi. It sets forth in a laughable light the pretensions of the typical Southerner in those days. Mr. Charles B. Elliott deals ably with the "Behring Sea Question" covering the ground from 1820 on. Mr. K. Kaneko the head of the Japanese commission which has been visiting various countries to compare their legislative assemblies, in order to establish a Japanese parliament, gives a clear outline of the Japanese Constitution of February 1889. The three serials are continued. Mrs. Deland's "Sidney" gives...
...article in the last Nation on "Ibsen and his Translators," Mr. G. R. Carpenter's translation of "The Lady from the Sea," which appeared in the November and December numbers of the Monthly, is noticed...