 | Merchant marine - 1922 - 844 pages
...glasses and our heads together till both ring musically in concert: then, O my dear fellow mortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so much distress us." Melville died in obscurity in 1891 after a long period of unproductiveness. He left... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...glasses and our heads together till both ring musically in concert: then, O my dear fellow mortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so much distress us." This serene and laughing desolation — a mood which in Melville alternated with... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 756 pages
...glasses and our heads together till both ring musically in concert: then, 0 my dear fellow mortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so much distress us." This serene and laughing desolation—a mood which in Melville alternated with a... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...writes a little bluely, and he proceeds to picture Hawthorne and himself in Paradise, with champagne : " How shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things...reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity ". All fame is patronage, he continues, in the same long, excited letter of an overwrought mind. "... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...writes a little bluely, and he proceeds to picture Hawthorne and himself in Paradise, with champagne : "How shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things...reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity". All fame is patronage, he continues, in the same I long excited letter of an overwrought mind. "Let... | |
 | John Freeman - Authors, American - 1926 - 232 pages
...he proceeds to picture Hawthorne and himself in Paradise, with champagne : " How shall we pleasandy discourse of all the things manifold which now so...reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity ". All fame is patronage, he continues, in the same long, excited letter of an overwrought mind. "... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...tropical, and strike our glasses and our heads together, till both musically ring in concert,—then, O my dear fellow-mortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so distress us,—when all the earth shall be but a reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity" (Julian... | |
 | Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 398 pages
...heads together "till both ring musically in concert." Then, "O my dear fellow-mortal," he exclaims, "how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so distress us."" Like Hawthorne's climactic comment on Hester and Dimmesdale in the forest — "Then, all was spoken!"... | |
 | Rodrigo Andrés González, Teresa Requena Pelegrí - 2007 - 141 pages
...tropical, and strike our glasses and our heads together, till both musically ring in concert, - then, O my dear fellowmortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse...reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity" (Norton. Vol. 1. 2145). From a letter to Hawthorne: (On Moby-Dick): "A sense of unspeakable security... | |
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Paradise, in some little shady corner by ourselves, and if we shall by any means be able to smuggle a basket of champagne there (I won't believe in a Temperance Heaven), and if we shall then cross our celestial legs in the celestial grass that is forever... 