Great Sea Stories...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. ... |
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Side 15
Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke . Dead men
he could descry through the blinding veil , rolled in heaps , laid flat ; dead men
and dying ; but no man upon his feet . The last volley had swept the deck clear ...
Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke . Dead men
he could descry through the blinding veil , rolled in heaps , laid flat ; dead men
and dying ; but no man upon his feet . The last volley had swept the deck clear ...
Side 16
Amyas looked up in astonishment and saw what it was . The Spaniard was
heeling fast over to leeward away from him . Her masts were all sloping forward ,
swifter and swifter — the end was come , then ! “ Back ! in God ' s name back ,
men !
Amyas looked up in astonishment and saw what it was . The Spaniard was
heeling fast over to leeward away from him . Her masts were all sloping forward ,
swifter and swifter — the end was come , then ! “ Back ! in God ' s name back ,
men !
Side 19
And he looked round sadly enough ; while no one needed that he should finish
his sentence , or explain his " but . " The fore - mast was gone , the main - yard
sprung , the rigging hanging in elf - locks , the hull shot through and through in ...
And he looked round sadly enough ; while no one needed that he should finish
his sentence , or explain his " but . " The fore - mast was gone , the main - yard
sprung , the rigging hanging in elf - locks , the hull shot through and through in ...
Side 26
... the beach even at that time was so great , that they were certain to go to pieces
before they could be got afloat again . We were obliged to double - reef the
topsails as soon as we hauled to the wind , and the weather looked very
threatening .
... the beach even at that time was so great , that they were certain to go to pieces
before they could be got afloat again . We were obliged to double - reef the
topsails as soon as we hauled to the wind , and the weather looked very
threatening .
Side 27
... and the eagerness with which they looked out for daylight , told us that we had
other dangers to encounter besides the ... his feet against the hammock - rails ,
as if with vexation , and walk away without saying a word , looking very grave .
... and the eagerness with which they looked out for daylight , told us that we had
other dangers to encounter besides the ... his feet against the hammock - rails ,
as if with vexation , and walk away without saying a word , looking very grave .
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Ahab Amyas answered appeared arms Bertie Blood blow boat Boston bows broken cabin called captain clear close coming continued course crew cried dark dead deck doctor door eyes face fell fire followed forward four gave Ginnell give half hand head heard heart held hold hope hour hundred iron island keep knew land leaving length light looked masts mate miles mind minutes moment morning nearly never night oars officers once passed port pulled quarter ready returned rolled round rushed sail sailor seemed seen ship shot shouted showed side sight soon stand stern stood tell thing thought took turned vessel voice watch waves weather whale whole wind wreck yards
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Side 171 - 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 92 - ... 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 143 - 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 141 - ... 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 103 - 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 94 - 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 140 - 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 144 - 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 153 - ... 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 104 - 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.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Great Sea Stories |
| Redaktør | Joseph Lewis French |
| Udgiver | Brentano's, 1921 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 20. jul 2005 |
| ISBN | 1636372716, 9781636372716 |
| Længde | 332 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |