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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... whole broadside , great and small , had been poured into her at pistol - shot , answered by a yell which rent their ears and hearts . " Spare the slaves ! Fire at the soldiers ! " cried Amyas ; but the work was too hot for much ...
... whole sky was covered with one black cloud , which sank so low as nearly to touch our mast - heads , and a tremendous sea , which appeared to have risen up almost by magic , rolled in upon us , setting the vessel on a dead lee shore ...
... whole of the night ; and really , what with the howling of the wind , the violence of the rain , the washing of the water about the decks , the working of the chain - pumps , and the creaking and groaning of the timbers , I thought that ...
... whole seas , and dividing the waves , which poured in one continual torrent from the forecastle down upon the decks below . Four men were secured to the wheel the sailors were obliged to cling to prevent being washed away the ropes were ...
... whole party had apparently made up their minds that resistance was vain , for their pistols and cutlasses , some of them bloody , had all been laid on the table , with the butts and handles towards us , contrasting horribly with the ...