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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... Blow , jolly breeze , " cried one , " and lay the Don over all thou canst . - What the murrain is gone , aloft there ? " Alas ! a crack , a flap , a rattle ; and blank dismay ! An unlucky shot had cut the foremast ( already wounded ) in ...
... blow hot and cold at every change of weather ! " " I wish you'd come forward and speak to them , sir , ” said Yeo , who had overheard the last words , " or we shall get nought done . " Amyas went forward instantly . " Now then , my ...
... blowing hard as we stood in for the Old Head of Kinsale - pilot boat breasting the foaming surge like a sea gull - Carrol Cove in her tiny mainsail - pilot jumped into the main channel - bottle of rum swung by the lead line into the ...
... blow , as when the spike of a butcher's axe is driven through a bullock's forehead deep into the brain . By this time all hands had been called , and the word had been passed to clear away two of the foremost car- ronades on the ...
... blow - Whiss - a shot flew over our mast - head . " A small schooner lying to right ahead , sir , " sang out the boatswain from the forecastle . Before we could beat to quarters , another sang between our masts . We kept steadily on our ...