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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... heart full- how can I describe it ? Picture it to yourselves , you who have ever lost a brother ; and you who have not , thank God that you know nothing of his agony . Full of impossible projects , he strode and staggered up and down ...
... heart sank for a moment at the prospect of fighting three ships at once , it was awed into silence by the cheer which rose from all the older men , and by Salvation Yeo's stentorian voice . " If there were a dozen , the Lord is with us ...
... heart to so young a general ; a very David and Daniel , saving his presence , lads . Silas Staveley , smite me that boy over the head , the young monkey ; why is he not down at the powder - room door ? " And Yeo went about his gunnery ...
... 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 across his stern , and hooked herself venom ...
... heart , come down ! " Utterly forgetful of all discipline , Drew leaps down hammer in hand , and the two old comrades rush into each other's arms , Why make a long story of what took but five min- utes to do ? The nine men ( luckily ...