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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... 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 BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 3.
... shouted Amyas , as cheers rent the welkin . " She has struck , " cried some , as the deafening hur- rah's died away . " Not a bit , " said Amyras . " Hold on , helmsman , and leave her to patch her tackle while we settle the galleys ...
... shouted Cary , who had his cue . And a flight of arrows from the forecastle rattled upon the galley's quarter - deck ... shouting in Spanish , " 8 GREAT SEA STORIES.
Joseph Lewis French. along the central gangway , shouting in Spanish , " Freedom to the slaves ! death to the masters ... shouted he . " Throw us a hammer down , men . Hark ! there's an English voice ! " There is indeed . From amid the ...