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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... shots of the 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 ...
... bow guns , and the shot went wide . Then another and another , while the men fidgeted about , looking at the priming of their muskets , and loosened their arrows in the sheaf . " Lie down , men , and sing a psalm 4 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... shot . 66 Ready about ! " and about she went like an eel , and ran upon the opposite tack right under the Spaniard's stern . The Spaniard , astonished at the quickness of the maneuver , hesitated a moment , and then tried to get about ...
... shot merrily , and long ere the armada could get herself to rights again , were two good miles to wind- ward , with the galleys sweeping down fast upon them . And two venomous - looking craft they were , as they shot through the short ...
... shot , and opened fire from their bow - guns ; but , owing to the chopping sea , their aim was wild . Amyas , as usual , withheld his fire . The men stood at quarters with compressed lips , not knowing what was to come next . Amyas ...