Pictures From the Life of Nelson (Classic Reprint)
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Everything fresh, true, and good about the sea usually (comes from America. In this country we have had one sea-writer. He is Marryat. At all events, we point to no other. People who cannot discriminate or distinguish, talk of Smollett as a naval novelist. He was at sea for a very short time, and cruised amongst the gallipots of the surgeon in the cockpit, whose scenes he has painted with the brush of a Hogarth. But he was no more a sailor than the doctor who feels your pulse and looks at your tongue. He never went aloft, knew noth ing of navigation, probably could not have told you swiftly and correctly the names of the sails and rigging of a ship. But What he did, was well done, and I wish there was more of it.
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Everything fresh, true, and good about the sea usually (comes from America. In this country we have had one sea-writer. He is Marryat. At all events, we point to no other. People who cannot discriminate or distinguish, talk of Smollett as a naval novelist. He was at sea for a very short time, and cruised amongst the gallipots of the surgeon in the cockpit, whose scenes he has painted with the brush of a Hogarth. But he was no more a sailor than the doctor who feels your pulse and looks at your tongue. He never went aloft, knew noth ing of navigation, probably could not have told you swiftly and correctly the names of the sails and rigging of a ship. But What he did, was well done, and I wish there was more of it.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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