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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... voices , while each stuck his oaken twig through the handkerchief that held his bundle , and shoul- dered it , clapping his straw or tarpaulin hat , with a slap on the crown , on one side of his head THE CRUISE OF THE TORCH 41.
... voice hailed dis- tinctly " we are captured by a " A sudden sharp cry , and a splash overboard , told of some fearful deed . " We are taken by a privateer or pirate , " sung out an- other voice . This was followed by a heavy crunching ...
... voices vibrated in her great cavities , and made the air ring cheer- ily around her . The vocalists were the Cyclops , to judge by the tremendous thumps that kept clean time to their sturdy tune . Yet it was but human labor , so heavy ...
... voice . " Man the bars , " returned Mr. Sharpe from the quarter - deck . " Play up , fifer . Heave away ! " Out broke the merry fife with a rhythmical tune , and tramp , tramp , tramp went a hundred and twenty feet round and round , and ...