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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... whole affair below was very ill lighted . The brown lady preceded us ; and , planting herself at the bottom of the staircase , began to shout to some one above- " Toby ! -Toby ! -buccra gentlemen arrive , Toby . " But no Toby responded ...
... 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 small , 9 thin ...
... whole of the pas- sage to Bermuda . On the fourth morning after we left Nassau , we descried a sail in the south - east quarter , and immediately made sail in chase . We overhauled her about noon ; she hove to , after being fired at ...
... whole of the previous night , and on deck the whole of the day , and actively em- ployed too , as during the greater part of it it blew a gale . I stooped down in some pain , to see what had bolted me to the grating ; but I had no ...