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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... hull shot through and through in twenty places , the deck strewn with the bodies of nine good men , besides sixteen wounded down below ; while the pitiless sun , right above their heads , poured down a flood of fire upon a sea of glass ...
... hull , masts , and rigging - behind an intervening sea , that rose in hoarse thunder between us , threatening to overwhelm both us and her . As for the transports , the largest of the three had lost her fore- topmast , and had bore up ...
... hull floated high as a castle , and to the subtle , intellectual , doll - faced , bolus - eyed people , that sculled to and fro , busy as bees , though looking forked mushrooms , she sounded like a vast musical shell : for a lusty ...
... hull , the part- ing shrouds , the shivered gear , and hear the shrieks and groans of his wounded ; and he unable to reply in kind ! The sweat of agony poured down his face . Oh , if he could but reach the open sea , and square his ...
... hull , the whole fell , with a heavy crash , into the sea . Cord , lanyard , and stay snapped like thread , as each received in succession the strain of the ship , leaving the naked and despoiled hull of the Caroline to drive before the ...