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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... cried Cary ; but Amyas shook his head . He knew , and knew not why he knew , that all the ports in New Spain . would never restore to him that one beloved face . 66 Yes , he shall be well avenged . And look there ! There is the first ...
... cried Cary ; and the ship was kept still closer to the wind . Amyas had revived at the sight of battle . He no longer felt his wounds or his great sorrow as he bustled about the deck ; and ere a quarter of an hour had passed , his voice ...
... cried an- other . " See , he is hauling up the foot of his mainsail : but he wants to keep the wind of us . " " Let him try , then , " quoth Amyas . " Keep her closer still . Let no one fire till we are about . Man the star- board guns ...
... cried some , as the deafening hur- rahs died away . " Not a bit , " said Amyras . " Hold on , helmsman , and leave her to patch her tackle while we settle the galleys . " On they shot merrily , and long ere the armada could get herself ...
... cried Amyas ; but the work was too hot for much discrimina- tion ; for the larboard galley , crippled but not undaunted , swung round across his stern , and hooked herself venom- ously on to him . It was a move more brave than wise ...