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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... thought crossed him . Amyas sighed . " Spare them all you can , in God's name : but if they try to run us down , rake them we must , and God forgive us . ' " " The two galleys came on abreast of each other , some forty yards apart . To ...
... thought so much ; and my two boys ? " " With the Lord . " The old man catches Yeo by the arm . " How , then ? " It is Yeo's turn to shudder now . " Killed in Panama , fighting the Spaniards ; sailing with Mr. Oxeham ; and ' twas I led ...
... we lay in the trough , deluging us with water from the forecastle , aft , to the binnacles ; and very often as the ship descended with a plunge , it was with such force that I really thought she would divide in half 26 II.
... thought that we must inevitably have been lost ; and I said my prayers at least a dozen times during the night , for I felt it impossible to go to bed . I had often wished , out of curiosity , that I might be in a gale of wind ; but I ...
... thought at the time that the captain had said that he would haul all the yards at once , there ap- peared to be doubt or dissent on the countenance of Mr. Falcon ; and I was afterwards told that he had not agreed with the captain ; but ...