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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... standing cool and proud , guiding and pointing , careless of the iron hail , but too lofty a gentleman to soil his glove with aught but a knightly sword - hilt : while Amyas and Will , after the fashion of the English gentlemen , had ...
... stand here chattering . Carpenter ! an ax ! and help me to cast these spars loose . Get out of my way , there ! lumbering the scuppers up like so many moult- ing fowls ! Here , all old friends , lend a hand ! Pelican's men , stand by ...
... the stream behind him , with Satan standing at the helm , he would scarcely have been surprised . What fitter craft could haunt that Stygian flood ? THE CLUB - HAULING OF THE DIOMEDE From " Peter BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 25.
... stand- ing on the starboard gangway , dressed in pea - jackets , un- der which , by the light of a lantern , carried by one of them , I could see they were all armed with pistols and cutlass . They appeared in great glee , and as they ...