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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... keep ; she is a race ship , and if we can but recover the wind of her , we will see whether our height is not a match for her length . We must give her the slip , and take the galleys first . " " I thank the Lord , " said Yeo , " who ...
... keep the wind of us . " " Let him try , then , " quoth Amyas . " Keep her closer still . Let no one fire till we are about . Man the star- board guns ; to starboard , and wait , all small arm men . Pass the order down to the gunner ...
... keep up a continual fire on a ship right ahead . The long low waist was packed full of the slaves , some five or six to each oar , and down the center , between the two banks , the English could see the slave - drivers walk- ing up and ...
... keep his temper with them , as he did this day . Amyas's conscience smote him ( and his simple and pious soul took the loss of his brother as God's verdict on his conduct ) , because he had set his own private affection , even his own ...
... keep his bed ; though even there who knows but the roof might fall through on him ? ” " Ah , it's all very well for you , captain , " said some grumbling younker , with a vague notion that Amyas must be better off than he because he was ...