Название: An Old Sailor's Yarns
Автор: N. Ames Kent
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066223359
isbn:
N. Ames
An Old Sailor's Yarns
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066223359
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautical Reminiscences" in the New England Magazine, says, no author ever stopped at the second book; and he very gravely proceeds to recommend that my number three should savor more of the style of Goldsmith or Washington Irving. I should have no objection whatever to writing like either of these distinguished authors, if I could; but as the case is, I must be content to write as well as I can. The whole article in Mr. B's magazine bore no faint resemblance to a dose of calomel and jalap, administered in a table-spoonful of molasses, in which the sweet and the nauseous are so equally balanced, that the patient is in doubt whether to spit or to swallow. I was, however, exceedingly СКАЧАТЬ