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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... seen them . The town of St. George's , for instance , looks as if the houses were cut out of chalk ; and one eve- ning the family where I was on a visit proceeded to the main island , Hamilton , to attend a ball there . We had to cross ...
... seen , having been compelled to bear up in the night , and to run before it under bare poles . At length , as the sun rose , we got before the wind , and it soon moderated so far that we could carry reefed topsails and foresail ; and ...
... seen , and never shall see in this world . No belching smoke obscured , no plunging paddles deafened ; all was musical ; the soft air sighing among the sails ; the phosphorescent water bubbling from the ship's bows ; the murmurs from ...
... seen with what majesty the enduring Anglo - Saxon fights . One of the indomitable race on the gangway , one at the foremast , two at the wheel , conned and steered the great ship down on a hundred matchlocks , and a grinning broadside ...
... was truly horrible , and not a star to be seen , so that our steer- age was uncertain . Sunday , 17th . - At dawn of day I found every person complaining , and some of them solicited extra allowance , 112 GREAT SEA STORIES.