The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . that a cheerful disposition In Virginia was anantidote against all diseases. Sandys, Within whose brest Wits empire seemd to be,And in whose braine a mine of poetrie,203 was better engaged, however, in Virginia than the aboveparagraph would indicate, for he finished the last ten booksof his translation of Ovids Metamorphoses, part amidthe fields and part amongst the roaring of the and Pope both ad
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . that a cheerful disposition In Virginia was anantidote against all diseases. Sandys, Within whose brest Wits empire seemd to be,And in whose braine a mine of poetrie,203 was better engaged, however, in Virginia than the aboveparagraph would indicate, for he finished the last ten booksof his translation of Ovids Metamorphoses, part amidthe fields and part amongst the roaring of the and Pope both admired his work, and it had alasting influence. Sandys did much literary work in Eng-land, and found time to act as the London agent of theVirginia Assembly for a few years. Fuller saw him inthe Savoy in 1641, a very aged man with a youthful soulin a decayed body. He died unmarried at Boxley Abbey,near Maidstone, 29 March, 1644. Sandys will always be known as a poet rather than as anadventurer over seas. Sidney Lee says of him: Sandys possessed exceptional metrical dexterity, and the refine-ment with which he handled the couplet entitles him to a place besideDenham and Waller. 204. GEORGE SANDYS1577/8-1644 (^05) \ Tup, ^?EW YORK JFUBUC LIBRARY^ T!lDEN FOLIN»AT<ON6 | Captain John Smith, the son of George and AliceSmith, of Willoughby, in Lincolnshire, was baptized inthe parish church there, 6 January, 1579/80. Soon afterhis fathers death, in 1596, he set out to win his way as asoldier of fortune in the wide world of his day, relying,however, more upon his pen than upon his sword. He saysthat he served for a year as a pirate; killed three Turkishchampions in combat, thus outdoing the youthful David;was sold as a slave and sent to Constantinople, where a ladybefriended him; was cruelly treated by a pasha, whom heslew, and escaped. On 19 December, 1606, he was oneof one hundred and five emigrants who set out from Black-wall for Virginia, where he arrived in chains, charged withc
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