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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... a counter stroke . Amyas shouted for the boarders , and in two minutes more he was over the side , and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging . What was this ? The distance between him and the BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 15.
... shouted a dozen voices . Michael turned- " And what should I come back for , then , to go home where no one knoweth me ? I'll die like an Englishman this day , or I'll know the reason why ! " and turning , he sprang in over the bulwarks ...
... shouted " Mercy ! We surrender ! " and the English broke into a cheer and called to them to run her alongside . " Silence ! " shouted Amyas . " I take no surrender from mutineers . Señor , " cried he to the captain , springing into the ...
... shouted , " God save Queen Bess ! " and the English an- swered with a " Hurrah ! " which rent the welkin . Another moment and the gulf had swallowed his vic- tim , and the poop , and him ; and nothing remained of the Madre Dolorosa but ...
... shouted some saucy hand from behind . " Where you daren't follow us alone by yourself , so you had better keep us company , " replied Yeo . " I'll tell you where we are going , lads , " said Amyas , rising from his work . " Like it or ...