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James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
yet if he more inquire, By certain signs, here set in sundry place, He may it find;.... And thou, O fairest princess under sky, In this fair mirror mayst behold thy face And thine own realms in land of Faery. Many of his personages we can still identify, and all of them were once as easily recognizable as those of Mademoiselle de Scudery. This, no doubt, added greatly to the immediate piquancy of the allusions. The interest they would excite may be inferred from the fact that King James, in 1596, wished to have the author prosecuted and punished for his indecent handling of his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, under the name of Duessa. Had the poet lived longer, he might perhaps have verified his friend Raleigh's saying, that whosoever in writing modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. The passage is one of the very few disgusting ones in the Faery Queen. Spenser was copying Ariosto; but the Italian poet, with the discreeter taste of
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
ed from the clouds of blood, treachery, and civil war, which had so long eclipsed her glory. The number and importance of the fishing stages had increased; in 1578 there were one 1578 hundred and fifty French vessels at Newfoundland, and regular voyages, for traffic with the natives, began to be successfully made. One French mariner, before 1609, had made more than forty voyages to the American coast. The purpose of founding a French empire in America was renewed, and an ample commission 1596. was issued to the Marquis'de la Roche, a nobleman of Chap. I.} Brittany. Yet his enterprise entirely failed. Sweeping the prisons of France, he established their tenants on the desolate Isle of Sable; and the wretched exiles sighed for their dungeons. After some years, the few survivers received a pardon. The temporary residence in America was deemed a sufficient commutation for a long imprisonment. The prospect of gain prompted the next enterprise. A monopoly of the fur-trade, wit
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
d by Barentsen, renewed the search on the north-east, but attempted in vain to pass to the south Chap. XV.} of Nova Zembla. The republic, disheartened by the repeated failure, refused to fit out another expedition; but the city of Amsterdam, in 1596, despatched two 1596. ships under Heemskerk and Barentsen to look for the open sea, which it had been said was to be found to the north of all known land. Braver men never battled with arctic dangers; they discovered the jagged cliffs of Spitzbe1596. ships under Heemskerk and Barentsen to look for the open sea, which it had been said was to be found to the north of all known land. Braver men never battled with arctic dangers; they discovered the jagged cliffs of Spitzbergen, and came within ten degrees of the pole. Then Barentsen sought to go round Nova Zembla, and when his ship was hopelessly enveloped by ice, had the courage to encamp his crew on the desolate northern shore of the island, and cheer them during a winter, rendered horrible by famine, cold, and the fierce attacks of huge white bears, whom hunger had maddened. When spring came, the gallant company, traversing more than sixteen hundred miles in two open boats, were tossed for three months by st
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