Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my... moby-dick or the whale - Page 15by herman melville - 1922Full view - About this book
| Popular culture - 1932 - 1028 pages
...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I...philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quiedy take to the ship. Like Cooper and Dana, Melville wrote of the sea from personal experience.... | |
| Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...glamorous mirage of distance, with all the impetuosity of his eighteen summers he planned a hegira. "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. This is my substitute for pistol and ball." CHAPTER IV A SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOL AND BALL "When I go... | |
| Clement Jones - Merchant marine - 1922 - 302 pages
...involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet — then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can." Those who live mainly in shipping offices may find a " damp, drizzly November " in their souls and... | |
| Herman Melville - Americans - 1924 - 376 pages
...respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever," he once declared. "With a philosophic flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. This is my substitution for pistol and ball." Stirred by motives of desperation, and by the delusion... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1925 - 804 pages
...purge of desperate moods. "With a philosophical flour494 495 ish," says the narrator of "Moby Dick," "Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." For tales of such prudent suicide there was an abundant audience. Melville could write in the confidence... | |
| William A. Drake - Criticism - 1926 - 402 pages
...was the purge of desperate moods. "With a philosophical flourish," says the narrator of Moby Dick, "Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." For tales of such prudent suicide there was an abundant audience. Melville could write in the confidence... | |
| Edward Dahlberg - American literature - 1964 - 177 pages
...depravity of his will. Herman Melville chose to take the sea, not the fire, or the earth, as his element. "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." Marcus Aurelius said, "Always remember the saying of Heraclitus, that the death of earth is to become... | |
| George Willis, William Henry Schubert - Art - 1991 - 396 pages
...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off— then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can," and he quickly adds, more by way of explanation than apology, "There is nothing surprising in this.... | |
| Richard Kopley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 372 pages
...involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet . . . then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I...himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship" (p. 3). Death, Ishmael tells us, is "only a launching into the region of the strange Untried . . .... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1992 - 548 pages
...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I...philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword;7 I quiedy take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost... | |
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