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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... face . 66 Yes , he shall be well avenged . And look there ! There is the first crop of our vengeance . " And he point- ed toward the shore , where between them and the now distant peaks of the Silla , three sails appeared , not five ...
... face . Amyas stood still steering . His face was grown seven years older in the last night . A terrible set calm was on him . Woe to the man who came across him that day ! " There are three of them , you see , my masters , " said he ...
... face with his hands for a while . " Well , I've been alone with the Lord these fifteen years , so I must not whine at being alone awhile longer- ' twon't be long . " " Put this coat on your back , uncle , 10 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... face a gale of wind in that state , or can we not ? " Silence . " Can we get home with a leak in our bottom ? " Silence . " Come along now ! Here's the wind again round with the sun , and up to the northwest . In shore with her ...
... face his mother ? " Never , never , never ! " wailed the bird again ; and Amyas smiled bitterly , and said " Never ! " likewise . The night mist began to steam and wreath upon the foul beer - colored stream . The loathy floor of liquid ...