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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... nearly as bare as their own sailors , and were cheer- ing , thrusting , hewing , and hauling , here , there , and everywhere , like any common mariner , and filling them with a spirit of self - respect , fellow - feeling , and personal ...
... nearly to touch our mast - heads , and a tremendous sea , which appeared to have risen up almost by magic , rolled in upon us , setting the vessel on a dead lee shore . As the night closed in , it blew a dreadful gale , and the ship was ...
... nearly suffocated me with his maudlin caresses , " I trundles wid you too , my darling , by the piper ! " " Have with you , boy - have with you , " shouted half- a - dozen other voices , while each stuck his oaken twig through the ...
... nearly three inches thick . To produce a two - inch rope , and junk it into three lengths , and rig the battering ram , was the work of an instant . " One two , three , " and bang the door flew open , and there were our men stowed away ...
... nearly surrounded us , and kept closing in . As the last of us jumped into the boat , they made a rush , so that if we had not shoved off with the speed of light , I think it very likely that we should have been overpowered . However ...