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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... eyes , while jets of tobacco - juice were squirting in all directions . I paid the reckoning , urging the party to proceed all the while , and indicating Pat Doolan's at the Cove as a good rendezvous ; and , promising to overtake them ...
... eyes , and a broken cutlass - blade sticking in the gash . We were immediately accosted by the mate , who was lashed down to a ring - bolt close by the bits , with his hands tied at the wrists by sharp cords , so tightly that the blood ...
... eyes turned up , while his loud stertorous breathing but too clearly indicated the rupture of a vessel on the brain . He was a stout portly man , and although we released him on the instant , and had him bled , and threw water on his ...