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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... arms , Why make a long story of what took but five min- utes to do ? The nine men ( luckily none of them wound- ed ) are freed , and helped on board , to be hugged and kissed by old comrades and young kinsmen ; while the remaining ...
... 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 ' em into it . May God and you forgive me ! " " They couldn't die better , cousin Yeo ...
... arm men , be ready . He will be aboard of us in five minutes ! " It was true . The Rose , unmanageable from the loss of her head - sail , lay at the mercy of the Spaniard ; and the archers and musqueteers had hardly time to range them ...
... arms were weary , and all tongues clove to the mouth . And sick men , rotting with scurvy , scrambled up on deck , and fought with the strength of madness : and tiny powder- boys , handing up cartridges from the hold , laughed and ...