Great Sea StoriesJoseph Lewis French Brentano's, 1921 - 332 sider ...It is one of the curiosities of literature, a fact that old Isaac Disraeli might have delighted to linger over, that there have been no collectors of sea-tales; that no man has ever, as in the present instance, dwelt upon the topic with the purpose of gathering some of the best work into a single volume. And yet men have written of the sea since 2500 B.C. when an unknown author set down on papyrus his account of a struggle with a sea-serpent. This account, now in the British Museum, is the first sea-story on record. Our modern sea-stories begin properly with the chronicles of the early navigators-in many of which there is an unconscious art that none of our modern masters of fiction has greatly surpassed. For delightful reading the lover of sea stories is referred to Best's account of Frobisher's second voyage-to Richard Chancellor's chronicle of the same period-to Hakluyt, an immortal classic-and to Purchas' "Pilgrimage."... |
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... called to them to run her alongside . " Silence ! " shouted Amyas . " I take no surrender from mutineers . Señor , " cried he to the captain , springing into the rigging and taking off his hat , " for the love of God and these men ...
... called out , " Land on the lee beam ! " I per- ceived the master dash his feet against the hammock - rails , as if with vexation , and walk away without saying a word , looking very grave . " Up there , Mr. Wilson , " said the captain ...
... called forth another volley of oaths and un- savoury exclamations , and all was bustle and confusion , and packing up of bundles , and settling of reckonings . " Where , " said one of the seamen , - " where do you go to , my lad ...
... called down to me , - " Mr. Cringle , you are wanted in the gunroom . " I put on my jacket again , and immediately proceeded thither , and on my way I noticed a group of seamen , stand- ing on the starboard gangway , dressed in pea ...
... called the Holy Ground . Pat Doolan's dom- ocile was in a little dirty lane , about the middle of the vil- lage . Presently ten strapping fellows , including the lieu- tenant , were before the door , each man with his stretcher in his ...