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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... rolled in heaps , laid flat ; dead men and dying ; but no man upon his feet . The last volley had swept the deck clear ; one by one had dropped below to escape that fiery shower : and alone at the helm , grinding his teeth with rage ...
... rolled up more and more , like a dying whale , exposing all her long black hulk almost down to the keel , and one of her lower - deck guns as if in defiance exploded upright into the air , hurling the ball to the very heavens . In an ...
... 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 buried with the press of canvas which she was obliged to carry : for had we sea - room , we should ...
... rolled out of the lockers , and every eye was fixed aloft , watching the masts , which were ex- pected every moment to go over the side . A heavy sea struck us on the broadside , and it was some moments before the ship appeared to ...
... rolled off the couch upon the hard deck , and lay in a dead faint . Alas the day ! —a maniac she was from that hour . She was the only daughter of the murdered master of the ship , and never awoke , in her unclouded reason , to the ...