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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... rushed upon their venomous errand . their venomous errand . Down went the steersman , and every soul who manned the poop . Down went the mizzen topmast , in went the stern - windows and quarter - galleries ; and as the smoke cleared ...
... The soldiers in the forecastle had been able to give them no assistance , open as they lay to the arrows and musketry from the Rose's lofty stern . Amyas rushed along the central gangway , shouting in Spanish , " 8 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... rushed up on deck to welcome his old comrades , and " Is Michael Heard , my cousin , here among you ? " Yes , Michael Heard is there , white - headed rather from misery than age ; and the embracings and question- ings begin afresh ...
... rushed to the side to leap overboard , but Amyas stopped him . " Let him die as he lived , with honor . " A wild figure sprang out of the mass of sailors who struggled and shrieked amid the foam , and rushed up- ward at the Spaniard ...
... rushed the black wavering pillar in a watery avalanche , and in a minute after the dark heaving billows rolled over the spot where- out it arose , as if no such thing had ever been . This said troubling of the waters was neither more ...