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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... Hold on , helmsman , and leave her to patch her tackle while we settle the galleys . " On they shot merrily , and long ere the armada could get herself to rights again , were two good miles to wind- ward , with the galleys sweeping down ...
... hold , laughed and cheered as the shots ran past their ears ; and old Salvation Yeo , a text upon his lips , and a fury in his heart as of Joshua or Elijah in old time , worked on , calm and grim , but with the energy of a boy at play ...
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... Hold fast there a minute . How's her head now ? " " N.N.E. , as she was before she broke off , sir . " " Pipe belay , " said the captain . " Falcon , " continued he , " if she breaks off again we may have no room to wear ; indeed ...