 There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your...  The Century: A Popular Quarterly - Page 471edited by - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - Adventure stories - 1892 - 545 pages
...like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking...is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pages
...like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes forming at last a part of every snore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking...this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or band an inch ; slip your hold at all ; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices... | |
 | herman melville - 1922
...Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gentle rolling ship ; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1436 pages
...Wickliff's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking...is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch, slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 184 pages
...its untoward consequences for those who mistake the roll of the sea for the rhythms of their soul. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 430 pages
...perniciousness of the experience. He calls it a "trance" or an "enchantment" and always stresses its flimsiness: "But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror." It thus takes only the slightest interruption... | |
 | Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 204 pages
...first had us moved by Ahab; but immediately he warns us to pull away: But while this sleep, this drea-n is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch, slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. (157) This... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 380 pages
...Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes. forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking...is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,... | |
 | David Ross Williams - History - 1987 - 293 pages
...enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space. . . . But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back to you in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1048 pages
...WicklifTs sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking...is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch, slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,... | |
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