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. " Art thou never glutted with Spanish blood , thou old wolf ? " asked Will Cary . " Never , sir , " answered Yeo . " To St. Jago be it , " said Amyas , " if we can get there : but - God help us ! " And he looked ...
... Never , never , never ! " How should he face his mother ? " Never , never , never ! " wailed the bird again ; and Amyas smiled bitterly , and said " Never ! " likewise . The night mist began to steam and wreath upon the foul beer ...
... said he , at last , " we must put the main- sail on her . " " She never can bear it , sir . " " She must bear it , " was the reply . Send the men aft to the mainsheet . See that careful men attend the 32 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... , pistol and cutlass in hand , and I shall never forget the scene that presented itself when I entered . The cabin was that of a vessel of five hundred tons , elegantly fitted up ; the panels filled with THE CRUISE OF THE TORCH 49.
... never spoke after- wards , and died in half an hour . Four gentlemanly - looking men were sitting at table , lashed to their chairs , pale and trembling , while six of the most ruffian - looking scoundrels I ever beheld stood on the ...