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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... returned to the inn . As I was turning into the public room , the door was open , and I could see it full of blowsy - faced monsters , glimmering and jabbering , through the midst of hot brandy grog and gin twist ; with poodle Benjamins ...
... returned . The whole party seemed very happy , my boon ally was fun itself , and I was much entertained with the mess he made when any of the foreigners at table addressed him in French or Spanish . I was particularly struck with a ...
... returning home from a party to his own lodg- ings , on passing through the piazza , he stumbled against something ... returned , we shook hands with Mr. and once more shoved off ; and , guided by the lights shown on board the Torch we ...
... returned to his desolate command . However , he after- wards brought his prize safe into Bermuda . The weather still continued very rough , but we saw nothing until the second evening after this . The fore- noon had been even more ...
... returned to the Torch . The eve- ning when we landed in the lobster - box , as Jack loves to designate a transport , was too far advanced for us to do anything towards refitting that night ; and the confusion and uproar and numberless ...