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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... moment at the prospect of fighting three ships at once , it was awed into silence by the cheer which rose from all the older men , and by Salvation Yeo's stentorian voice . " If there were a dozen , the Lord is with us , who has said ...
... moment , and then tried to get about also , as his only chance ; but it was too late , and while his lumbering length was still hanging in the wind's eye , Amyas's bowsprit had all but scraped his quarter , and the Rose passed slowly ...
... moment , and then fell up into the wind . " Well done , men of Devon ! " shouted Amyas , as cheers rent the welkin . " She has struck , " cried some , as the deafening hur- rahs died away . " Not a bit , " said Amyras . " Hold on ...
... moment for a counter stroke . Amyas shouted for the boarders , and in two minutes more he was over the side , and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging . What was this ? The distance between him and the BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 15.
... moment , as if by magic . Amyas looked up in astonishment and saw what it was . The Spaniard was heeling fast over to leeward away from him . Her masts were all sloping forward , swifter and swifter - the end was come , then ! " Back ...