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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... oars apiece , stretching their long sword - fish snouts over the water , as if snuffing for their prey . Behind this long snout , a strong square forecastle was crammed with sol- diers , and the muzzles of cannon grinned out through ...
... oars as he had done the ship's sails , Amyas knew was impossible . To run from them was to be caught between them and the ship . He made up his mind , as usual , to the desperate game . " Lay her head up in the wind , helmsman , and we ...
... 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 to strike him in his new position , Amyas's whole broadside , great and small , had been poured into ...
... oars and writhing limbs , a voice is shrieking in broadest Devon to the master , who is looking over the side . " Oh , Robert Drew ! Robert Drew ! and take me out of hell ! " " Who be you , in the name of the Lord ? " Come down , " Don ...
... oars , pull away after their comrade ; and that with such a will that in ten minutes they have caught her up , and careless of the Spaniard's fire , boarded her en masse , with yells as of a thousand wolves . There will be fearful ...