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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... cried one , " and lay the Don over all thou canst . - What the murrain is gone , aloft there ? " Alas ! a crack , a flap , a rattle ; and blank dismay ! An unlucky shot had cut the foremast ( already wounded ) in two , and all forward ...
... cries and prayers , and rush aft to the poop , where , under the flag of Spain , stood the tall captain , his left hand ... cried he to the captain , springing into the rigging and taking off his hat , " for the love of God and these men ...
... cries Yeo , " murmuring the very minute after the Lord has delivered you from the Egyp- tians . Now I do not wish to set Amyas up as better , thank God , than many and many a brave and virtuous captain in her Majesty's service at this ...
... cried Cary to the malcontents ; " we're raw longshore fellows , but we won't be outdone by any old sea - dog of them all . " And setting to work himself , he was soon followed by one and another , till order and work went on well enough ...
... cried the master , who was at the binnacle . " Hold fast there a minute . How's her head now ? " " N.N.E. , as she was before she broke off , sir . " Pipe belay , " said the captain . " Falcon , " continued he , " if she breaks off ...