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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... turned their hands ( like true sailors ) to all manner of trades , and made much money ; so that all went well , until the fatal year 1574 , when , much against the minds of many of the Spaniards them- selves , that cruel and bloody ...
... turned to a more clerical occupation , enough to do in carrying poor wretches to the surgeon , without giving that spiritual consolation which he longed to give , and they to receive . At last there was a lull in that wild storm . No ...
... turned- " And what should I come back for , then , to go home where no one knoweth me ? I'll die like an Englishman this day , or I'll know the reason why ! " and turning , he sprang in over the bulwarks , as the huge ship rolled up ...
... turned sheep already ! Why , but yesterday evening you were grumbling because I would not run in and fight those three ships under the batteries of La Guayra , and now you think it too much to have fought them fairly out at sea ...
... turned slowly to the wind , pitching and chopping as the sails were spilling . When she had lost her way , the cap- tain gave the order , " Let go the anchor . We will haul all at once , Mr. Falcon , " said the captain . Not a word was ...