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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... held more soldiers , the sunlight flashing merrily upon their armor and their gun - barrels ; as they neared , the English could hear plainly the cracks of the whips , and the yells as of wild beasts which an- swered them ; the roll and ...
... held their breaths . Suddenly the glorious creature righted herself , and rose again , as if in noble shame , for one last struggle with her doom . Her bows were deep in the water , but her after - deck still dry . Righted : but only ...
... held the ship from nearing the shore . At last he cried , " Cut away the cable ! " A few strokes of the axes were heard , and then the cable flew out of the hawse - hole in a blaze of fire , from the violence of the friction , and ...
... held . " 66 " See what the distance is , O'Brien , " said Robinson . It was measured , and proved to be thirteen miles . " Only thirteen miles ; and if we do weather , we shall do very well , for the bay is deep beyond . It's a rocky ...
... while each stuck his oaken twig through the handkerchief that held his bundle , and shoul- dered it , clapping his straw or tarpaulin hat , with a slap on the crown , on one side of his head THE CRUISE OF THE TORCH 41.