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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... passengers . While they were coming , Dodd sent and ordered the gunner to load the carronades with shot , and secure and apron them .... The Agra had already shown great sailing qualities : the MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE 79.
... coming north with canes , and short of hands : she was a pirate watching the Straits . The captain leaned silent and sombre with his arms on the bulwarks , and watched the suspected craft . Mr. Fullalove joined the group , and levelled ...
... coming fate . • Realize the situation , and the strange incongruity be- tween the senses and the mind in these poor fellows ! The day had ripened its beauty ; beneath a purple heaven shone , sparkled , and laughed a blue sea , in whose ...
... coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate . His character is known ; he scuttles all the ships he boards , dishonors the women , and murders the crew . We cracked on to get out of the narrows , and now we have shortened ...
... coming swiftly up on his lee quarter . It was a schooner . Was she coming to his aid ? Horror ! A black flag floated from her foremast head . While Dodd's eyes were staring almost out of his head 92 GREAT SEA STORIES.