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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... Rose , with the golden flag of Spain floating at her poop ; and her trumpets are shouting defiance up the breeze , from a dozen brazen throats , which two or three answer lustily from the Rose , from whose poop flies the flag ...
... rose that noble old favorite of good Queen Bess , from cornet and sackbut , fife and drum ; while Parson Jack , who had taken his stand with the musicians on the poop , worked away lustily at his violin . " Well played , Jack ; thy ...
... Rose's bows , but knowing the English readiness dare not for fear of being raked ; so her only plan , if she did not intend to shoot past her foe down to leeward , was to put her head close to the wind , and wait for her on the same ...
... Rose sawed slowly through the bank of 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 ...