 Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same time the concrete of all colors, is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows...  moby-dick or the whale - Page 236by herman melville - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...much a colour as the visible absence of colour, and at the same time the concrete of all colours ; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink ? And when we consider that other... | |
 | John Erskine - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 328 pages
...in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color ; and at the same time the concrete of all colors ; is it for these reasons...blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner - Reference - 1975 - 364 pages
...so much a colour as the visible absence of colour, and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink?" He uses other explanatory metaphors:... | |
 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - Novelists, American - 1982 - 446 pages
...as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons...colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? (p. 169) Once Ishmael commits himself to Ahab's quest he ceases to be the dreamy "young Platonist"... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankncss, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colorless, all-color of atheism from... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 196 pages
...as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons...blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows - a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory... | |
 | Mary Arensberg - Poetry - 1986 - 242 pages
...color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for all these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning in a wide landscape of snows — a colorless, all color of atheism from which we shrink ... so the wretched infidel gazes... | |
 | Jefferson Humphries - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 136 pages
...the milky way? Or is it, that as an essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blackness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colorless, all-color of atheism from... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1072 pages
...as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons...blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows — a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full ot meaning, in a wide landscape ot snows—a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?... | |
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