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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... waves , and a native sea - literature was the result . The sea - songs of Thomas Dibdin and other writers were the first fruits of this newly created literary nationalism . Shortly after the beginning of the nineteenth century the sea ...
... aloft , men . Don't you see how she drags us over ? Cut away , or we shall sink with her . " They cut away , and the Rose , released from the strain , shook her feathers on the wave - crest like a 16 GREAT SEA STORIES.
Joseph Lewis French. shook her feathers on the wave - crest like a freed sea- gull , while all men held their breaths . Suddenly the glorious creature righted herself , and rose again , as if in noble shame , for one last struggle with ...
... waves , you then looked down , as it were , upon a low , sandy coast , close to you , and covered with foam and breakers . " She behaves nobly , " observed the captain , stepping aft to the binnacle , and looking at the compass ; " if ...
... waves curled and topped around us , bearing us down upon the shore , which presented one continued surface of foam , extending to within half a cable's length of our position . The captain waved his hand in silence to the quartermaster ...