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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... round and canister , swept the proud Don from stem to stern , while through the white cloud of smoke the musket - balls , and the still deadlier clothyard arrows , whistled and rushed upon their venomous errand . Down went the steersman ...
... to strike him full , one on each bow . They were within forty yards — another minute , and the shock would come . The Englishman's helm went up , his yards creaked round , and gathering way , he BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 7.
... round to strike him in his new position , Amyas's whole broadside , great and small , had been poured into her at pistol - shot , answered by a yell which rent their ears and hearts . " Spare the slaves ! Fire at the soldiers ! " cried ...
... round , steward , and all take your time . " So they waited five minutes more , and then set to work quietly , after the fashion of English mastiffs , though , like those mastiffs , they waxed right mad before three rounds were fired ...
... round shot through and through each other . So they roared and flashed , fast clenched to each other in that devil's wedlock , under a cloud of smoke beneath the cloudless tropic sky ; while all around , the dolphins gamboled , and the ...