 Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf...  Works - Page 404by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 544 pages
...weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism ; or else there have been many corruptions and... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 546 pages
...weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism ; or else there have been many corruptions and... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1885 - 542 pages
...between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the iumost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must...truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managcd the truth with a view to popular conservatism; or else there have been many corruptions and... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - Authors, American - 1921 - 446 pages
...weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism; or else there have been many corruptions and... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...I. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...was the truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism." Blighted by disillusionment, and paralysed... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...weeks have scarcely passed at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.' Herman Melville was about thirty-two when he wrote Moby Dick. He was born in New York in 1819, of mixed... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 448 pages
...I. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of fiie bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould. It seems to me now that Solomon was... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 756 pages
...I. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould." And as Melville grew in disillusionment, he grew in astonishment. In his relentless pessimism he boasted... | |
 | 1925 - 804 pages
...at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But now I feel that I am come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mold." Writing to Hawthorne in the midst of "Moby Dick," Melville thus reviewed the seven years since... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of...and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould." He was, in fact, completing his " inmost leaf " — Moby-Dick. Part of the perversity which breaks... | |
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