 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...  Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic - Page 121by Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - Adventure stories - 1892 - 576 pages
...own brother of Jove ? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp...ungraspable phantom of life ; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, i we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...ungraspable phantom of life ; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...the own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about... | |
 | Edward O. Wilson - Nature - 1984 - 182 pages
...region." The yearning is of a very general kind, generating symbolism across many categories of thought. "It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all." Cyril S. Smith, A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History (Cambridge:... | |
 | Willard Hallam Bonner - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 142 pages
...this he is positive and personal, never reaching the poignant pitch of Ishmael's cry about the sea: "It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."Thoreau's sea flashed symbols of imagination and spirit, tokens of infinity occasionally touching... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...the own brother ofJove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 254 pages
...desires the sea, he insists: Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp...ungraspable phantom of life, and this is the key to it all. (p. i4) In an obvious sense, the whole of Moby Dicf( is a commentary on the myth of Narcissus,... | |
 | Pamela V. Grabe - Social Science - 392 pages
...Herman Melville (1851, p. 64) in Moby Dick (see Bartlett, 1980): "And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all." References American Psychiatric Association (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of disorders.... | |
 | Juan Bruce-Novoa - Literary Collections - 1990 - 196 pages
...contingencia. Juan Garcia Ponce, La aparicion de lo invisible. But that same image, we ourselves see . . . It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Only from nothing are there infinite possibilities — all simultaneously... | |
 | Catherine H. Zuckert - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. 1t is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. (p. 14) Human beings reasonably associate water with the source of life. The problem is that... | |
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