Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 pages |
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... young , and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . If after all these fearful fainting trances , the verdict be , the golden haven was not gained ; —yet in bold quest thereof , better to sink in ...
... young , and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . If after all these fearful fainting trances , the verdict be , the golden haven was not gained ; —yet in bold quest thereof , better to sink in ...
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... young and very unsophisti- cated as yet , and withal rather high - blooded ; and sometimes read the History of the Revolutionary War , and possessed a mother who very frequently made remote social allusions to the epaulettes of the ...
... young and very unsophisti- cated as yet , and withal rather high - blooded ; and sometimes read the History of the Revolutionary War , and possessed a mother who very frequently made remote social allusions to the epaulettes of the ...
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... young enough to cherish up into early manhood the most fantastic idealisation of his father . " Children begin by loving their parents , " a modern cynic has said ; " later the children grow to understanding , and sometimes , they ...
... young enough to cherish up into early manhood the most fantastic idealisation of his father . " Children begin by loving their parents , " a modern cynic has said ; " later the children grow to understanding , and sometimes , they ...
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... young man , and so acquired a mastery of the French language . He is said to have spoken French like a native : a bilingual accomplishment that Melville never even re- motely acquired . Melville boasted a smattering of a Poly- nesian ...
... young man , and so acquired a mastery of the French language . He is said to have spoken French like a native : a bilingual accomplishment that Melville never even re- motely acquired . Melville boasted a smattering of a Poly- nesian ...
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... young girls , earlier remarked , and with best - intentioned seriousness , that " An ass is much better adapted than a horse to show off a lady . " It may be so . In any event , Allan inscribed on the fly - leaf of Dr. Akenside's ...
... young girls , earlier remarked , and with best - intentioned seriousness , that " An ass is much better adapted than a horse to show off a lady . " It may be so . In any event , Allan inscribed on the fly - leaf of Dr. Akenside's ...
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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...