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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... mind to do it thorough- ly , and the most terrible faith that it was God's work . So all fell to ; and though there was comparatively little to be done , the ship having been kept as far as could be in fighting order all night , yet ...
... mind , as usual , to the desperate game . " Lay her head up in the wind , helmsman , and we will wait for them . " They were now within musket - shot , and opened fire from their bow - guns ; but , owing to the chopping sea , their aim ...
... mind William Prust , that Captain Hawkins left behind in the Honduras , years and years agone ? There's nine of us aboard , if your shot hasn't put ' em out of their misery . Come down , if you've a Christian heart , come down ...
... minds of many of the Spaniards them- selves , that cruel and bloody Inquisition was established for the first time in the Indies ; and how from that mo- ment their lives were one long tragedy ; how they were all imprisoned for a year ...
... mind , my merry masters , " said Amy as , " she has quantity and we quality . " " That's true , " said one , " for one honest man is worth two rogues . " " And one culverin three of their footy little ordnance , " said another . " So ...