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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... and bade him go below and fill himself . Will Cary went down , and returned in five minutes with a plate of bread and beef , and a great jack of ale , coaxed them down Amyas's throat , as a nurse does with a child 2 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... returning to the attack without ex- posing herself a second time to the English broadside ; and a desperate attempt of the Spaniards to board at once through the stern - ports and up the quarter was met with such a demurrer of shot and ...
... returned to the charge . " We have five shots between wind and water , and one somewhere below . Can we face a gale of wind in that state , or can we not ? " Silence . " Can we get home with a leak in our bottom ? " Silence . " Come ...
... returned on deck to see how the weather was , and if the wind at all favored us . On deck the superior officers were in conversation with the captain , who expressed the same fear that O'Brien had in our berth . The men , who knew what ...
... returned upon the decks . The main rock was within ten yards of the counter , when another gust of wind laid us on our beam - ends , the foresail and mainsail split , and were blown clean out of the bolt - ropes the ship righted ...