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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... the golden flag of Spain floating at her poop ; and her trumpets are shouting defiance up the breeze , from a dozen brazen throats , which two or three answer lustily from the Rose , from whose poop flies the flag BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS ...
... answered by a yell which rent their ears and hearts . 66 Spare the slaves ! Fire at the soldiers ! " cried Amyas ; but the work was too hot for much discrimina- tion ; for the larboard galley , crippled but not undaunted , swung round ...
... answer by a shout ; and Amyas , once more safe on board again , dashes after the other galley , which has been hovering out of reach of his guns : but there is no need to trouble himself about her ; sickened with what she has got , she ...
... answered from the Rose by a column of smoke , and the eighteen - pound ball crashed through the bottom of the defenseless Spaniard . " Who fired ! Shame to fire on a sinking ship ! " " Gunner Yeo , sir , " shouted a voice from the main ...
... answered . " Impossible , Señor . No guerra is good which stains my honor . " " God have mercy on you , then ! " " Amen ! " said the Spaniard , crossing himself . She gave one awful lunge forward , and dived under the coming swell ...