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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... appeared , not five miles to windward . " There are the Spanish bloodhounds on our heels , the same ships which we saw yesterday off Guaya . Back 1 Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs From "Westward Ho!" By CHARLES KINGsley PAGE.
... appeared to have risen up almost by magic , rolled in upon us , setting the vessel on a dead lee shore . As the night closed in , it blew a dreadful gale , and the ship was nearly buried with the press of canvas which she was obliged to ...
... appeared terrible , how much more did this , even at a distance . The captain eyed it for some minutes in silence , as if in calculation . " Mr. Falcon , " said he , at last , " we must put the main- sail on her . " " She never can bear ...
... appeared to recover herself ; she reeled , trembled , and stopped her way , as if it had stupefied her . The first lieutenant looked at the captain , as if to say , " This will not do . " " It is our only chance , " answered the captain ...
... appeared at the wicket . " Who are you saking here , an ' please ye ? " " No one in particular , my dear ; but if you don't let me in , I shall be lodged in jail before five minutes be over . " " I can't help that , young man , " said ...