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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... heart , come down ! " Utterly forgetful of all discipline , Drew leaps down hammer in hand , and the two old comrades rush into each other's arms , Why make a long story of what took but five min- utes to do ? The nine men ( luckily ...
... heart beat loud , and no shame to them , as she began firing away merrily , determined , as all well knew , to wipe out in English blood the disgrace of her late foil . " Never mind , my merry masters , " said Amy as , " she has ...
... heart as of Joshua or Elijah in old time , worked on , calm and grim , but with the energy of a boy at play . And now and then an opening in the smoke showed the Spanish cap- tain , in his suit of black steel armor , standing cool and ...
... Amyas's corpse ; perhaps they might sup on him after all ; for a heavy sickening graveyard smell made his heart sink within him , and his stomach heave ; and his weary body , and more weary soul , 24 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... heart at a blow - Whiss - a shot flew over our mast - head . " A small schooner lying to right ahead , sir , " sang out the boatswain from the forecastle . Before we could beat to quarters , another sang between our masts . We kept ...