Excerpt from The Romance of the Men of Devon Spanish Armada; the launching of the Trac tarian Movement as well as the colonization of Newfoundland, and the discovery of Davis Straits. Devonshire has produced a poet of the first rank in Coleridge, and a painter of the first rank in Sir Joshua Reynolds; elegant literary. Triflers in the persons of Tom Durfey and Winthrop Mackworth Praed; a great his torian in James Anthony Froude; a great novelist in Richard Dod'dridge Blackmore; a long list of variously interesting divines, in cluding names as diverse in their associations as those of Miles Cover'dale, Richard Hurrell Frouide, Henry of Exeter, and Jack Russell. These, as well as the Elizabethan mariners and buccaneers, will figure in our pageant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.