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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... close to the wind , and wait for her on the same tack . Amyas laughed to himself . " Hold on yet awhile . More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream . Drew , there , are your men ready ? " " Ay , ay , sir ! " and on they ...
... close by his swarm of wasps , and set them so good an example how to use their stings that in three minutes more there was not a Span- iard on board who was not dead or dying . " Let the slaves free ! " shouted he . hammer down , men ...
... close alongside . " Blow , jolly breeze , " cried one , " and lay the Don over all thou canst . - What the murrain is gone , aloft there ? " Alas ! a crack , a flap , a rattle ; and blank dismay ! An unlucky shot had cut the foremast ...
... close to you , and covered with foam and breakers . " She behaves nobly , " observed the captain , stepping aft to the binnacle , and looking at the compass ; " if the wind does not baffle us , we shall weather . " The captain had ...