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."... |
Fra bogen
Resultater 6-10 af 37
... continued- " here is a bundle . " He threw it on the floor . " You must rig in the clothes it contains , and make your way into the celebrated crimp - shop in the neighborhood , and pick up all the information you can regarding the ...
... continued the lieutenant , " say to him , that an officer of his Majesty's sloop Torch is below , with des- patches for the admiral . " " Surely , sir , surely , " the dark lady continued ; " Follow me , sir ; and dat small gentleman ...
... continued , with a clear blue sky , without a cloud overhead by day , and a bright cold moon by night . It blew so hard for the three succeeding days , that we could not carry more than close- reefed topsails to it , and a reefed ...
... continued very rough , but we saw nothing until the second evening after this . The fore- noon had been even more boisterous than any of the pre- ceding , and we were all fagged enough with " make sail , ' and " shorten sail , " and ...
... continued to follow my eyes , as they thought , and to stare up into the rigging . " Why , sir , I have thereby got a stiff neck - that's all , sir . " " Go and turn in at once , my good boy . -make haste , now ; tell our steward to ...