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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... passed slowly across his stern at ten yards ' distance . " Now , then ! " roared Amyas . " Fire , and with a will ! Have at her , archers : have at her , muskets all ! " and in an instant a storm of bar and chain - shot , round and ...
... passed them , fought them , and now and then passed years of misery on board of them . Who knew but what there might be English among those sun - browned , half - naked masses of panting wretches ? " Must we fire upon the slaves ...
... was obeyed ; but the golden - locked Amyas was followed , and would have been followed through the jaws of hell . The Spaniards , ere five minutes had passed , poured en masse into the Rose's waist : but only to 14 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... passed this river's mouth ? Three days . And yet how much had passed in them ! Don Guzman found and lost- Rose found and lost - a great victory gained , and yet lost - perhaps his ship lost - above all , his brother lost . Lost ! O God ...