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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... coast , until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason , where we captured two or three vessels , and obliged many more to run on shore . And here we had an instance showing how very important it is that the cap- tain of a man - of - war ...
... coast , until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason , where we captured two or three vessels , and obliged many more to run on shore . And here we had an instance showing how very important it is that the cap- tain of a man - of - war ...
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... coast , 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 ...
... coast , 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 ...
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... coast 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 ...
... coast 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 ...
Side 115
... coast , we found our- selves in smooth water . Two islands lay about four miles to the west by north , and appeared eligible for a resting - place , if for nothing more ; but on our approach to the nearest is- land , it proved to be ...
... coast , we found our- selves in smooth water . Two islands lay about four miles to the west by north , and appeared eligible for a resting - place , if for nothing more ; but on our approach to the nearest is- land , it proved to be ...
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... coast of New Holland , and but for the refreshment which our visit to its shore afforded us , it is all but certain that we must have perished . Now , however , it became clear that we were leaving it behind , and were commencing our ...
... coast of New Holland , and but for the refreshment which our visit to its shore afforded us , it is all but certain that we must have perished . Now , however , it became clear that we were leaving it behind , and were commencing our ...
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Side 179 - Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Side 100 - ... as I could, in hopes of assistance; but they had already secured the officers who were not of their party, by placing sentinels at their doors. There were three men at my cabin door, besides the four within; Christian had only a cutlass in his hand, the others had muskets and bayonets. I was hauled out of bed, and forced on deck in my shirt, suffering great pain from the tightness with which they had tied my hands. I demanded the reason of such violence, but received no other answer than abuse,...
Side 151 - Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose — some twenty or more feet out of the water — the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it...
Side 149 - ... of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight. Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left. With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly...
Side 111 - Holland, and gave them every information in my power, that in case any accident should happen to me, those who survived might have some idea of what they were about, and be able to find their way to Timor, which at present...
Side 102 - It will very naturally be asked, what could be the reason for such a revolt ? In answer to which I can only conjecture that the mutineers had flattered themselves with the hopes of a more happy life among the Otaheitans than they could possibly enjoy in England ; and this, joined to some female connexions, most probably occasioned the whole transaction.
Side 148 - A gentle joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished F.uropa clinging to his graceful horns! his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
Side 152 - Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud. But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly assault. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees.
Side 161 - ... the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side ; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made. But...
Side 112 - God for his generous protection, and with much content took their miserable allowance of the twenty-fifth part of a pound of bread and a quarter of a pint of water for dinner.