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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Joseph Lewis French. stumbled and fell over the dead body of a man , no doubt the one who had hailed last , with his skull cloven to the · eyes , and a broken cutlass - blade sticking in the gash . We were immediately accosted by the ...
... an object met our eyes ! Draw- ing aside the curtain that concealed a sofa fitted into a recess , there lay , more dead than alive , a tall and most beautiful girl , her head resting on her arm , THE CRUISE OF THE TORCH 51.
... dead faint . Alas the day ! —a maniac she was from that hour . She was the only daughter of the murdered master of the ship , and never awoke , in her unclouded reason , to the fearful consciousness of her own dishonour and her parent's ...
... dead and cold , with a knife sticking under his fifth rib - no doubt intended for his master . The speaker was Bolivar . night , Mr. Treenail returned , we shook hands with Mr. , and once more shoved off ; and , guided by the lights ...
... dead before the wind , under the impres- sion , no doubt , that she would draw ahead of us , from her gear being entire , before we could rig out our light sails again . And so she did for a time , but at length we got within gunshot ...