The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 147
of Henry VII of England, we have theGreat Harry of about eight hundred tons. Shewas a big, bulky vessel, and she formed themodel for ships of war for the next hundredyears. The Spanish built their great ships ofthe invincible Armada very much on the samelines, only much larger. Tennyson in his… … and ABOVE THEM ALL, AND STRONGEST OK ALL, TOVVKKKD THE GREAT HARRY 336 Longfellow. SEA-FIGHTS AND WAR-SHIPS—ANCIENT AND MODERN 337 In fact, the very size of the Spanish vesselsis said to have been, to a great extent, the causeof the ill success of the Spaniards; the guns ontheir great ships being…
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