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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... blood running to his head , and the white of his eyes turned up , while his loud stertorous breathing but too clearly indicated the rupture of a vessel on the brain . He was a stout portly man , and although we released him on the ...
... blood on her bosom , and foam on her mouth , with her long dark hair loose and dishevelled , and covering the upper part of her deadly pale face , through which her wild sparkling black eyes , protruding from their sockets , glanced and ...
... blood , sir , if you don't let every- thing go by the run this instant , I'll fire a broadside . Strike , sir , to his Britannic Majesty's sloop Torch . " The poor fellow commanding the schooner had by this time found out his mistake ...
... all our lives , I shall fight while a plank of her swims . Better to be killed in hot blood than walk the plank in cold . " The officers cheered faintly : the captain's dogged res- olution MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE 87.
... blood , their own and their mates ' , replied with loud un- daunted cheers , and deadly hail of grape from the quarter- deck ; while the master gunner and his mates load- ing with a rapidity the mixed races opposed could not rival ...