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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... length . We must give her the slip , and take the galleys first . " " I thank the Lord , " said Yeo , " who has given so wise a heart to so young a general ; a very David and Daniel , saving his presence , lads . Silas Staveley , smite ...
... length was still hanging in the wind's eye , Amyas's bowsprit had all but scraped his quarter , and the Rose passed slowly across his stern at ten yards ' distance . " Now , then ! " roared Amyas . " Fire , and with a will ! Have at her ...
... length of our position . The captain waved his hand in silence to the quartermaster at the wheel , and the helm was put down . The ship turned slowly to the wind , pitching and chopping as the sails were spilling . When she had lost her ...
... lengths of the rocky point ; some few of the men I observed to clasp their hands , but most of them were silently taking off their jackets , and kicking off their shoes , that they might not lose a chance of escape provided the ship ...
... lengths should any suspicious circumstances indicat- ing an attack take place , we separated , like a pulk of Cos- sacks ... length to the right of the high precipitous bank - up which we stole in straggling parties — on which that ...