Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 pages |
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Page 127
... In a headlong retreat from all havens astern , on January 3 , 1841 , Melville shipped on board the Acushnet , a whaler bound for the South Seas . CHAPTER VII BLUBBER AND MYSTICISM " And , as for PEDAGOGY , PUGILISM , LETTERS 127.
... In a headlong retreat from all havens astern , on January 3 , 1841 , Melville shipped on board the Acushnet , a whaler bound for the South Seas . CHAPTER VII BLUBBER AND MYSTICISM " And , as for PEDAGOGY , PUGILISM , LETTERS 127.
Page 129
... Acushnet , bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery . " In the second part of this statement , Stedman attempts to stick to the letter : but there is a flaw in his text . That Mel- ville sailed in the Acushnet is corroborated ...
... Acushnet , bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery . " In the second part of this statement , Stedman attempts to stick to the letter : but there is a flaw in his text . That Mel- ville sailed in the Acushnet is corroborated ...
Page 130
... Acushnet , according to Hubbard , who came back in her ( more than a four years ' voyage ) and vis- ited me in Pittsfield in 1850 ; " as well as by surviving letters written by Richard Tobias Greene , the Toby of Typee . The roster of ...
... Acushnet , according to Hubbard , who came back in her ( more than a four years ' voyage ) and vis- ited me in Pittsfield in 1850 ; " as well as by surviving letters written by Richard Tobias Greene , the Toby of Typee . The roster of ...
Page 133
... Acushnet there is no straightforward account . Redburn , Typee , Omoo and White- Jacket are transparent chapters in autobiography . From his experiences on board the Acushnet Melville draws generously in Moby - Dick : but these ...
... Acushnet there is no straightforward account . Redburn , Typee , Omoo and White- Jacket are transparent chapters in autobiography . From his experiences on board the Acushnet Melville draws generously in Moby - Dick : but these ...
Page 134
... Acushnet . By all odds , the chief chapter in the history of whaling is the story of its rise and practical extinction in the Southern New England States . In this limited geographical area , trade in " oil and bone " was pursued with ...
... Acushnet . By all odds , the chief chapter in the history of whaling is the story of its rise and practical extinction in the Southern New England States . In this limited geographical area , trade in " oil and bone " was pursued with ...
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Page 41 - 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 127 - 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 74 - 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 336 - 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 135 - By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
Page 29 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.
Page 336 - 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 143 - 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 328 - You did not care a penny for the book. But, now and then as you read, you understood the pervading thought that impelled the book— and that you praised. Was it not so? You were archangel enough to despise the imperfect body, and embrace the soul.
Page 329 - Ah! it's a long stage, and no inn in sight, and night coming, and the body cold. But with you for a passenger, I am content and can be happy. I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality.