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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... once , it was awed into silence by the cheer which rose from all the older men , and by Salvation Yeo's stentorian voice . " If there were a dozen , the Lord is with us , who has said , ' One of you shall chase a thousand . ' Clear away ...
... once through the stern - ports and up the quarter was met with such a demurrer of shot and steel that they found themselves in three minutes again upon the galley's poop , accompanied , to their intense disgust , by Amyas Leigh and ...
... once more safe on board again , dashes after the other galley , which has been hovering out of reach of his guns : but there is no need to trouble himself about her ; sickened with what she has got , she is struggling right up wind ...
... Let go the anchor . We will haul all at once , Mr. Falcon , " said the captain . Not a word was spoken ; the men went to the fore brace , which had not been manned ; most of them knew , although CLUB - HAULING OF THE DIOMEDE 29.
... once , there ap- peared to be doubt or dissent on the countenance of Mr. Falcon ; and I was afterwards told that he had not agreed with the captain ; but he was too good an officer , and knew that there was no time for discussion , to ...