The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXIX: From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE AUSTEN FORREST ESQ. CAPTAIN IN THE E. I. C.'S MARINE SERVICE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD INCLEDON BURY, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN EDWARDS LLOYD GRAHAM, OF H.M.S. ALCMENE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXIX: From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE AUSTEN FORREST ESQ. CAPTAIN IN THE E. I. C.'S MARINE SERVICE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD INCLEDON BURY, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN EDWARDS LLOYD GRAHAM, OF H.M.S. ALCMENE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1588
- INDEX
Summary
Drace, pererrati quem novit terminus orbis,
Quemque simul mundi vidit uterque polus;
Si taceant homines, facient te sidera notum,
Sol nescit comitis non memor esse sui.
Exposed to thee have earth's last limits been,
Thou at like distance both the poles hast seen;
Were mankind mute, the stars thy fame would blaze,
And Phœbus sing his old companion's praise.
FOR his bravery, perseverance, and general talent, Sir Francis Drake will ever be remembered amongst the distinguished names which have immortalized the reign of Elizabeth—the Augustan age of Britain. We have been long anxious to inscribe a brief memorial of his achievements on our columna rostrata; and the fortunate acquisition of an original portrait of the hero, has tended to accelerate the accomplishment of our desires.
Dr. Johnson, whose labours in biography may justly be regarded as so many models in that branch of literary composition, wrote the lives of only two naval characters—Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake. The former contains so admirable a display of character, seems so completely to develope the views and motives of its subject, and exhibits so many moral beauties, that we shall make no apology for transferring it to the pages of the Naval Chronicle; as, without experiencing the slightest self-degradation, we pronounce it to be eminently superior to any original memoir of Sir Francis Drake, that we might be enabled to offer.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 1 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1813