Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 pages |
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... wrote Melville in the sum- mer of 1851 , " we shall sit down in 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 ) ...
... wrote Melville in the sum- mer of 1851 , " we shall sit down in 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 ) ...
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... wrote to Hawthorne he felt that triumph had not been achieved . Yet he needed but one con- clusive gesture to provoke the world to cry this as a lie in his throat : one last sure sign to convince all posterity that he was , indeed , one ...
... wrote to Hawthorne he felt that triumph had not been achieved . Yet he needed but one con- clusive gesture to provoke the world to cry this as a lie in his throat : one last sure sign to convince all posterity that he was , indeed , one ...
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... and children , the conflict within him was heightened . By a vicious circle , with brooding disap- pointment came ill health . " Ah , muskets the gods have made to carry infinite combustion , " he wrote in Pierre DEVIL'S ADVOCATE 19.
... and children , the conflict within him was heightened . By a vicious circle , with brooding disap- pointment came ill health . " Ah , muskets the gods have made to carry infinite combustion , " he wrote in Pierre DEVIL'S ADVOCATE 19.
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... wrote in Mardi : " Though essaying but a sportive sail , I was driven from my course by a blast re- sistless ; and ill - provided , young , and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . If after ...
... wrote in Mardi : " Though essaying but a sportive sail , I was driven from my course by a blast re- sistless ; and ill - provided , young , and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . If after ...
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Raymond Melbourne Weaver. fears . " Think of it ! " he once wrote to Hawthorne . " To go down to posterity is bad enough , any way ; but to go down as a ' man who lived among the cannibals ! ' When I think of pos- terity in reference to ...
Raymond Melbourne Weaver. fears . " Think of it ! " he once wrote to Hawthorne . " To go down to posterity is bad enough , any way ; but to go down as a ' man who lived among the cannibals ! ' When I think of pos- terity in reference to ...
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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...