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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... blow from the north - west , and so con- tinued without intermission during the whole of the pas- sage to Bermuda . On the fourth morning after we left Nassau , we descried a sail in the south - east quarter , and immediately made sail ...
... blowing so hard that we had some difficulty in boarding her , when we found she was a Baltimore pilot - boat - built schooner , of about 70 tons burden , laden with flour , and bound for Bermuda . But three days before , in a sudden ...
... blow like thunder , so that we were all soon reduced to our storm staysails ; and there we were , trans- ports , merchantmen , and men - of - war , rising on the moun- tainous billows one moment , and the next losing sight of everything ...
... blowing half a gale of wind ; that is all . " " Half a gale ! Ah , that is the way you always talk to us ladies . Oh , pray give me my light , and send me a clergyman ! " Dodd took pity , and let her have her light , with a mid- shipman ...
... in with aid . Winc- ing under each heavy blow , he crept doggedly , patiently on , towards that one visible hope . At last , when the ship was cloven with shot , and pep- pered with grape , the channel opened : in five 90 GREAT SEA STORIES.