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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... bow presently , sir , and I have the luck- " Steady , helm ! " said Amyas . " What is he after now ? " The Spaniard , who had been coming upon them right down the wind under a prèss of sail , took in his light canvas . " He don't know ...
... bows , but knowing the English readiness dare not for fear of being raked ; so her only plan , if she did not intend to shoot past her foe down to leeward , was to put her head close to the wind , and wait for her on the same tack ...
... bow - guns ; but , owing to the chopping sea , their aim was wild . Amyas , as usual , withheld his fire . The men stood at quarters with compressed lips , not knowing what was to come next . Amyas , towering mo- tionless on the quarter ...
... bow ; a long dull grind , and then loud crack on crack , as the Rose sawed slowly through the bank of oars from stem to stern , hurling the wretched slaves in heaps upon each other ; and ere her mate on the other side could swing round ...
... bows were deep in the water , but her after - deck still dry . Righted : but only for a moment , long enough to let her crew come pouring wildly up on deck , with cries and prayers , and rush aft to the poop , where , under the flag of ...