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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... reached Passage , I parted company at the corner of the street , and rejoined the lieutenant . Next morning we spent in looking about the town- Cork is a fine town - contains seventy thousand inhabitants more or less - safe in that ...
... reached . the boat , and time it was we did , for a number of stout fellows , who had followed us in a gradually increasing crowd until they amounted to forty at the fewest , now nearly surrounded us , and kept closing in . As the last ...
... reached the first landing - place , when we heard a noise as of two negroes wrangling on the steps above us . " You rascal ! " sang out one , " take dat ; larn you for teal my wittal ! " - then a sharp crack , as if he had smote the ...
... reached the ear of the landlord , who was seated at the head of his table in the upper piazza , a long gallery about fifty feet long by fourteen wide , and he im- mediately rose and ordered his butler to take a light . When he came down ...
... reached the gentle- man's house where we had been invited to dine ; at length , on turning a corner , with both lateen sails drawing beau- tifully , we ran bump on a shoal ; there was no danger , and knowing that the ' Mudians were ...