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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... eyes red with rage and weeping , his heart full how can I describe it ? Picture it to yourselves , you who have ever lost a brother ; and you who have not , thank God that you know nothing of his agony . Full of impossible projects , he ...
... eye , Amyas's bowsprit had all but scraped his quarter , and the Rose passed slowly across his stern at ten yards ' distance . " Now , then ! " roared Amyas . " Fire , and with a will ! Have at her , archers : have at her , muskets all ...
... eyes , stood the Spanish captain . Now was the moment for a counter stroke . Amyas shouted for the boarders , and in two minutes more he was over the side , and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging . What was this ? The distance ...
... eyes were strained greedily to find some opening in the mangrove belt : but none was to be seen for some time . The lead was kept going ; and every fresh heave announced shal- lower water . " We shall have very shoal work of those ...
... eye , and execute my orders with precision . Away to your stations for tacking ship . Hands by the best bower anchor . Mr. Wilson , attend below with the carpenter and his mates , ready to cut away the cable at the moment that I give ...