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...One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a satire on Jack’s attachment to “the rights of man...

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Historical Fiction, Sea stories

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...in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with more than 1.7 million square nautical miles of ocean. That’s roughly equal to the total EEZ area of th...

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...4879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagina... ...e met my father in England where she was working as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS ... ...ll those months of agony and embarrassment. If she could write a good non- fiction book it would honor Jake. I’m not viewing it objectively now! I’m t... ...th an eclectic assortment, in- cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publ...

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... the tale of the Phantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dr... ... in July 1525, with every promise of great success; but the imperfect state of nautical science in that day led to several disasters which brought the... ...such as the voyage of Hanno which, though generally regarded at that time as a fiction, was yet accepted as probable, if not true, by a few voyagers, ... ...d instruments, he put the men in irons and sent them below; collecting all the nautical apparatus, including every map and chart he threw overboard th... ...r some time the incarceration continued, since da Gama, anxious to keep up the fiction of being a merchant, had previously directed that only in the l... ...eir journals with accounts of the queer vessels and men which they saw. With a nautical interest in the subject, they tell of the native craft which h...

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...e- spondence about mammoth bones, orthography, and the practicalities of the nautical torpedo. But I digress. Macaulay is not against using a lengthen...

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... from the same accursed locality, than I have read of practised thieves with the appearance and manners of gentlemen—a popular phenomenon which never ... ...(which, I suppose, never will grow leafy, for they never did) guarded here and there a dusty soldier, or field labourer, baking on a heap of broken st... ...the time when the City of London re- ally was London; when the ‘Prentices and Trained Bands were of mark in the state; when even the Lord Mayor him- s... ...and no such incident. He is a dog of the Newfoundland breed, for whose honesty I would be bail to any amount; but whose intellectual quali- ties in as... ...s was natural, with the Chambers I had just left. They were an upper set on a rotten staircase, with a mysteri- ous bunk or bulkhead on the landing ou... ...rds, and sails—mainmast seventy feet high. At the word of command from the Skipper of this ship—a mahogany-faced Old Salt, with the indispensable quid... ...and hang slops there— pewter watches, sou’-wester hats, waterproof overalls—’firtht rate articleth, Thjack.’ Down by the Docks, such dealers exhibitin... ...g. There were several women among the diners, and several clerks and shopmen. There were carpenters and painters from the neighbouring buildings under... ...t noth- ing. Such is the unchanging manner of life with this nursery of our hardy seamen; and very dry nurses they are, and al- ways wanting something...

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...it would take one too far to look up those which have been commemorated in fiction. 9 Henry James The most I did was to endeavor to identify the form... ... you for the moment that you have no energy to protest against the obvious fiction. You enter a yard encumbered with rub- bish and a defiant dog, and ... ... captured Huguenots in the Loire. The facts of history are bad enough; the fictions are, if possible, worse; but there is little doubt that the future... ...ssociation very potent. The Duchesse de Langeais is a somewhat transparent fiction; but the castle from which Balzac borrowed the title of his heroine... ...if there ever was one, without even a river (to call a river) to encourage nautical ambitions—having found his end as admiral of a fleet; but this boa... ...at is added: the one is history, the 116 A Little Tour in France other is fiction; and I like the former the better of the two,—it is so much more ro...

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...h the full consent of his relatives, and which seems to have satisfied his nautical ambition for a time. As told in the book, Melville met with more t... ...ir marriage fol- lowed on August 4, 1847, in Boston. The wanderings of our nautical Othello were thus brought to a conclusion. Mr. and Mrs. Melville r... ...ed of standard books of all classes, including, of course, a proportion of nautical literature. Especially interesting are fifteen or twenty first edi... ...cation in the United States. I understand that Murray did not then publish fiction. At any rate, the book was accepted by him on the assurance of Gans... ...n received as romance instead of reality, he will now try his hand at pure fiction. ‘Mardi’ may be called a splendid failure. It must have been soon a... ... of ‘Typee.’ ‘The Confidence Man’ (1857), his last serious effort in prose fiction, does not seem to require criticism. Mr. Melville’s pen had rested ... ...e mountain, with a cluster of plantains within easy reach, criticizing her nautical evolutions as she was working her way out of the harbour. To be su... ...avourable opportunity that offered. 53 Melville CHAPTER SIX A SPECIMEN OF NAUTICAL ORATORY—CRITI- CISMS OF THE SAILORS—THE STARBOARD WATCH ARE GIVEN ... ... not half so horrible as it is usually described. According to the popular fictions, the crews of vessels, shipwrecked on some barbarous coast, are ea...

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...the clouds, and to steal away the human warmth out of his conceptions. His fictions are sometimes historical, sometimes of the present day, and someti... ...rs (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the world of fiction. But the fierce old hag began to get angry and show a glimpse of he... ...and State streets, serving in the useful capacity of sign to the shop of a nautical instrument maker. We know not how to account for the in feriority...

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...at it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Log- books can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds ha... ...wer; and either in the authentic lineaments of Fact, or the forged ones of Fiction, a com- plete picture and Genetical History of the Man and his spir... ...pice-country of a Nowhere?—A soli- tary rover, on such a voyage, with such nautical tactics, will meet with adventures. Nay, as we forthwith discover,... ...ld, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is true, the final Cessation of War is ... ...y a mystification! What if many a so-called Fact were little better than a Fiction; if here we had no direct Cam- 144 Sartor Resartus era-obscura Pic... ... late entertaining account of Sir John Herschel’s discoveries in the moon. Fictions of this kind are, how- ever, not uncommon, and ought not, perhaps,...

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..., that he bore the name of ‘intruder’ from without. He was supposed by the fiction of the case to be in league with his patron for the persecution of ... ...ly on suffer- ance. Do we mean then, that a ‘call’ should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony, like the English conge-d’elire addressed to a dean and... ...ll comprehends the grand poetic feel- ing employed and nursed by narrative fictions through the last seventy years in England, though connected by us ... ... Other Papers – V olume Two fect of his representation had it reposed on a fiction, it is known that the Greeks did not rightly appreciate tallness. ‘... ...nut horse from horse chest- nut, and in rank as a Roman proconsul from the nautical consul’s first clerk at a seaport. A clerical moralist in a pulpit... ...Papers’ have recently made it manifest that Pope’s tale was the wildest of fictions. The Duke of Buckingham had, to some extent, suffered from his loy...

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...n which (I would say) every difficulty , every contingency, every masterly fiction, every form of procedure known in that court, is represented over a... ...gether for a little while upstairs, that this caprice about the wind was a fiction and that he used the pretence to account for any disappointment he ... ...tain Swosser used to say. You must excuse me if I occasionally introduce a nautical expression; I was quite a sailor once. Cap tain Swosser loved tha... ...ars to me that this maxim is appli cable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession. 230 Bleak House – Vol. One “To all professions,” obse... ...as discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story books, fairy tales, fictions, and 287 Bleak House – Vol. One fables, and banished all levities... ...he deceased upon which the court is particularly anxious, namely, that the fiction of a full sized coffin should be pre served, though there is so li...

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...neys, every day. That it might the better escape notice, he had invented a fiction that it belonged to Mr. Blackboy , and was to be left with Barkis... ...y steady application, and I was engaged at that time upon my first work of fiction I came past Mrs. Steerforth s house. I had often passed it before, ... ... other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions. They ex- press themselves, and I leave them to them- selves. When... ...g up his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weath er, he was far more nautical, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty. His whole family, if I may s... ...re, and roused my utmost energies to do it well. This was my third work of fiction. It was not half written, when, in an interval of rest, I thought o... ...ietly pursued my task. In pursuance of my intention of referring to my own fictions only when their course should incidentally connect itself with the...

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...ithout a blush. By a like pleas The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 55 ant fiction his single chamber was always mentioned in a plural number. In its ... ...mission.’ The poor girl was moving hastily away, when she was suddenly, in nautical phrase, ‘brought to’ by a subdued shriek from Miss Monflathers. ‘S... .... Beautiful, really.’ ‘With Miss Sally,’ Quilp went on, ‘and the beautiful fictions of the law, his days will pass like minutes. Those charming creati... ... him than himself; and both greatly con soled and comforted by the little fiction they had agreed upon, respecting Becky Morgan, whose decease was no... ... he went there fore; and his apartments (for he still retained the plural fiction) being at no great distance from the office, he was soon seated in ... ... mortality. Talk of the cor dial that sparkled for Helen! Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality (Barclay and Co.’s).—If they ever send it in a...

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...y as I could wish, and that she desired her compliments which was a polite fiction on my part. I m much obleeged to her, I m sure, said Mr. Peggotty... ...e Monument. The Orfling met me here sometimes, to be told some astonishing fictions respecting the wharves and the Tower; of which I can say no more t... ...e waters, I think. Mr. Peggotty says you are a wonder, I re- turned. A nautical phenomenon, eh? laughed Steerforth. Indeed he does, and you know... ...h! I exclaimed. You don t mean to say that there is any affinity between nautical matters and ecclesiastical matters? I don t, indeed, my dear boy... ...ons. You shall go there one day, and find them blundering through half the nautical terms in Young s Dictionary, apropos of the Nancy having run dow... ... clergyman who has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in the nautical case, the ad- vocate in the clergyman s case, or contrariwise. The...

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...e continued. The lugger, being piloted with great ability, and using every nautical shift to make her escape, had now reached, and was about to double... ...try, half prose, from the lips of the tale-teller! No wonder that European fiction sounds cold and meagre, after the wonderful effects which I have se... ... wonder how they should. I remember, in our stolen voyages to the world of fiction, you always ad- mired the grand and the romantic—tales of knights, ... ..., or smuggling lugger, called the Black Prince. Being distinguished by his nautical skill and intrepidity, his vessel was frequently freighted, and hi... ...tory, has only to add, that though ignorant of the coincidence between the fictions of the tale and some real circumstances, he is contented to be- li...

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...uch travellers as Young Martin and Mark Tapley. As I had never, in writing fiction, had any disposition to soften what is ridiculous or wrong at home,... ...en an island, there could have been no Miss Pecksniffs. And being now on a nautical tack, it closed with this verse: ‘All hail to the vessel of Peck... ...huzzlewit she was a phantom of Mrs Gamp’s brain—as Messrs. Doe and Roe are fictions of the law—created for the express purpose of holding visionary di... ...aistcoat. This was the board: everything else being a light-hearted little fiction. ‘Bullamy!’ said Mr Tigg. ‘Sir!’ replied the porter. ‘Let the Medic... ...jot for sinking lower yet in his contempt. He saw that he had devised this fiction as the readiest means of getting rid of him at once, but that it mu... ...ch were not, how- ever, as well protected as the good woman, by a pleasant fiction, seemed to think; for, though every bandbox had a carefully closed ...

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...nal interest. What is an opium-eater? Says a character in a recent work of fiction, of a social wreck: “If it isn’t whisky with him, it’s opium; if it... ... eyes of the high table, or dais, it then be- came possible to assume as a fiction of law that the three delf fellows, after all, were not present. Th... ...never were ut- tered at all. They stand in the same category of theatrical fictions as the cry of the foundering line-of-battle ship Vengeur, as the v... ...e scale of the Mississippi. Now, it is hardly worth while to answer a pure fiction gravely; else one might say that no Englishman out of Bedlam ever t... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov... ...m—for nationality it was not. Suffren, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could (w... ...ep silent remembrances, have been detected through murmur- ing, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat...

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...uck me that my brother never would degrade himself by fitting out a costly nautical expedition against poor little Gombroon; and how else could he get... ...rnate Dead with the Uncon- scious Living. Important Fact, without trifling Fiction, by HIM.” I have not the pleasure of knowing HIM; but cer- tainly I... ...t this punctilio of etiquette, like some vicious forms of law or technical fictions grown too narrow for the age, which will not allow of cases coming... ...ing (if such a thing were possible) to do something or other which, by any fiction of courtesy, or constructively, so as to satisfy a lawyer, or in a ... ...s there which can sue or be sued, that can thank or be thanked? Neither by fiction nor by delegation can you bring their bod- ies into court. A king’s... ...at he might swim in the innocent blood which he had caused to be shed. But nautical men, I suspect, would have demurred to that estimate. Then were su... ... indispensable to the prosperity of the ship. Amongst the various parts of nautical skill communi- cated to my brother by his first fatherly captain, ... ... point of committing himself. Other causes might be assigned, causative of nautical super- stition, and tending to feed it. But enough. It is well kno... ...thout one particle of interest, my brother passed into the royal navy. His nautical accomplishments were now of the utmost importance to him; and, as ...

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... for nationality it was not. Suffrein, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could, [... ...ep silent remembrances, have been de- tected through murmuring, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat... ...ry eyes of the high table, or dais, it then became possible to assume as a fiction of law—that the three delf fellows, after all, were not present. Th... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov... ...Rome; one which belonged to Rome republican, as well as Rome imperial. The fiction in our modern practice is—that we wait upon the levé, or ris- ing o... ...wait upon the levé, or ris- ing of the prince. In France, at one era, this fiction was real- ized: the courtiers did really attend the king’s dressing... ...vitable. Both professed the same basis Both came in the morning. Both were fictions. Hence they were confounded. 151 That fact speaks for itself,—bre...