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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... stood still steering . His face was grown seven years older in the last night . A terrible set calm was on him . Woe to the man who came across him that day ! " There are three of them , you see , my masters , " said he , as the crew ...
... stood across the Rose's bows , but knowing the English readiness dare not for fear of being raked ; so her only plan , if she did not intend to shoot past her foe down to leeward , was to put her head close to the wind , and wait for ...
... stood at 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 ...
... stood the Spanish captain . Now was the moment for a counter stroke . Amyas shouted for the boarders , and in two minutes more he was over the side , and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging . What was this ? The distance between ...
... stood the tall captain , his left hand on the standard - staff , his sword pointed in his right . " Back men ! " they heard him cry , " and die like valiant mariners . " Some of them ran to the bulwarks , and shouted " Mercy ! We ...