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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... thought that our main yard - arm would have touched the rock ; and at this moment a gust of wind came on , which laid the ship on her beam - ends , and checked her progress through the water , while the accumulating noise was deafening ...
... thought at the time that the ship , relieved of her courses , and again lifting over the waves , was not a bad similitude of the relief felt by us all at that moment ; and , like her , we trembled as we panted with the sudden reaction ...
... thought I. The captain took the trumpet- " Schooner , ahoy " -no answer— “ D — n your blood , sir , if you don't let every- thing go by the run this instant , I'll fire a broadside . Strike , sir , to his Britannic Majesty's sloop Torch ...
... thought that waterspout was created by some next to supernatural exertion of the power of the Deity , in order to suck up water into the clouds , that they , like the wine - skins in Spain , might be filled with rain . The morning after ...
... thought , and to stare up into the rigging . " Why , sir , I have thereby got a stiff neck - that's all , sir . " " Go and turn in at once , my good boy . -make haste , now ; tell our steward to give you a glass of hot grog , and mind ...