Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 pages |
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... Pierre : or The Ambiguities and The Confidence Man : His Masquerade quite incomprehensible , and certainly most uninteresting for the average reader . " Unhampered by diffidence - because innocent of the essen- tial facts critics of ...
... Pierre : or The Ambiguities and The Confidence Man : His Masquerade quite incomprehensible , and certainly most uninteresting for the average reader . " Unhampered by diffidence - because innocent of the essen- tial facts critics of ...
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... Pierre - his most frankly poisonous book - to a safely limited edition . And the public , taking the hint , ceased buying his books . In reply , Melville earned his bread as Inspector of Customs . The public , defeated in its righteous ...
... Pierre - his most frankly poisonous book - to a safely limited edition . And the public , taking the hint , ceased buying his books . In reply , Melville earned his bread as Inspector of Customs . The public , defeated in its righteous ...
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Raymond Melbourne Weaver. to carry infinite combustion , " he wrote in Pierre , “ and yet made them of clay . " The royalties from his books proved in- adequate for the support of his family , so for twenty years he earned a frugal ...
Raymond Melbourne Weaver. to carry infinite combustion , " he wrote in Pierre , “ and yet made them of clay . " The royalties from his books proved in- adequate for the support of his family , so for twenty years he earned a frugal ...
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... Pierre - a book at the antipodes from Redburn . Far from be- ing a boy's book , Pierre was prophetic of the pessimism of Hardy and the subtlety of Meredith . From Redburn to Pierre ; from Typee , a spirited travel - book on Polynesia ...
... Pierre - a book at the antipodes from Redburn . Far from be- ing a boy's book , Pierre was prophetic of the pessimism of Hardy and the subtlety of Meredith . From Redburn to Pierre ; from Typee , a spirited travel - book on Polynesia ...
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... Pierre , and Father Mapple , and Jackson , and Doc- tor Long Ghost , and Kory - Kory , and Bildad , and Peleg , and Fedallah , and Tashetego , and Marnoo , and Queequeg . But it seems hardly likely that Melville will there find ...
... Pierre , and Father Mapple , and Jackson , and Doc- tor Long Ghost , and Kory - Kory , and Bildad , and Peleg , and Fedallah , and Tashetego , and Marnoo , and Queequeg . But it seems hardly likely that Melville will there find ...
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Page 37 - I SAw him once before, As he passed by the door; And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if he said,
Page 121 - And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life ; and this is the key to it all.
Page 68 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?' O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Page 330 - Melville, as he always does, began to reason of Providence and futurity, and of everything that lies beyond human ken, and informed me that he had 'pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated;' but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation, and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before — in wandering to and fro over these deserts, as dismal and monotonous as...
Page 137 - The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in 'ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
Page 316 - I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head ! I had rather be a fool with a heart, than Jupiter Olympus with his head. The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
Page 330 - He can neither believe, nor be. comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other. If he were a religious man, he would be one of the most truly religious and reverential ; he has a very high and noble nature, and better worth immortality than most of us.
Page 320 - After supper, I put Julian to bed; and Melville and I had a talk about time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters...
Page 140 - Quincunxes," as Coleridge pithily says, "in heaven above, quincunxes in earth below, quincunxes in the mind of men, quincunxes in tones, in optic nerves, in roots of trees, in leaves, in everything.
Page 353 - OH, ye ! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain...