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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... Heard , my cousin , here among you ? " Yes , Michael Heard is there , white - headed rather from misery than age ; and the embracings and question- ings begin afresh . " Where is my wife , Salvation Yeo ? " " With the Lord . " " Amen ...
... heard from the Spaniard's upper - deck . Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke . Dead men he could descry through the blinding veil , rolled in heaps , laid flat ; dead men and dying ; but no man upon his ...
... Heard . With hair and beard floating in the wind , the bronzed naked figure , like some weird old Indian fakir , still climbed on steadfastly up the mizzen - chains of the Span- iard , hatchet in hand . " Come back , Michael ! Leap ...
... heard him cry , " and die like valiant mariners . " Some of them ran to the bulwarks , and shouted " Mercy ! We surrender ! " and the English broke into a cheer and called to them to run her alongside . " Silence ! " shouted Amyas . " I ...
... Heard . The Don , who stood above him , plunged his sword into the old man's body : but the hatchet gleamed , nevertheless : down went the blade through the headpiece and through head ; and as Heard sprang onward , bleeding , but alive ...