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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... 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 feet . The last volley had swept the deck clear ; one by one had dropped below to ...
... looked up in astonishment and saw what it was . The Spaniard was heeling fast over to leeward away from him . Her masts were all sloping forward , swifter and swifter - the end was come , then ! " Back ! in God's name back , men ! She ...
... looked round sadly enough ; while no one needed that he should finish his sentence , or explain his " but . " The fore - mast was gone , the main - yard sprung , the rigging hanging in elf - locks , the hull shot through and through in ...
... looked very threatening . In an hour afterwards , the whole sky was covered with one black cloud , which sank so low as nearly to touch our mast - heads , and a tremendous sea , which appeared to have risen up almost by magic , rolled ...
... looked out for daylight , told us that we had other dangers to encounter besides the storm . At last the morning broke , and the look - out man upon the gangway called out , " Land on the lee beam ! " I per- ceived the master dash his ...