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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... quarter of the eighteenth century , a compendium of monumental importance , continued the tradition of Hakluyt and Purchas . By this time the sea - power of England had become supreme , -Britannia ruled the waves , and a native sea ...
... quarter of an hour had passed , his voice cried firmly and cheerfully as of old — " Now , my masters , let us serve God , and then to breakfast , and after that clear for action . " Jack Brimblecombe read the daily prayers , and the ...
... quarter , and the Rose 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 ...
... quarter - deck at the stern held more soldiers , the sunlight flashing merrily upon their armor and their gun - barrels ; as they neared , the English could hear plainly the cracks of the whips , and the yells as of wild beasts which an ...
... quarters with compressed lips , not knowing what was to come next . Amyas , towering mo- tionless on the quarter - deck , gave his orders calmly and decisively . The men saw that he trusted himself , and trusted him accordingly . The ...