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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... ready , and more than ready , before the great ship was within two miles of them . She is now within two musket - shots of the Rose , with the golden flag of Spain floating at her poop ; and her trumpets are shouting defiance up the ...
... ready ? " " Ay , ay , sir ! " and on they went , closing fast with the Spaniard , till within a pistol - shot . " Ready about ! " and about she went like an eel , and ran upon the opposite tack right under the Spaniard's stern . The ...
... no need to trouble himself about her ; sickened with what she has got , she is struggling right up wind , leaning over to one side , and seemingly ready to sink . " Are there any English on board of her ? BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 9.
... ready . He will be aboard of us in five minutes ! " It was true . The Rose , unmanageable from the loss of her head - sail , lay at the mercy of the Spaniard ; and the archers and musqueteers had hardly time to range them- selves to ...
... ready , oh , ready . " " She has come up again , " cried the master , who was at the binnacle . " 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 ...