Herman MelvilleMacmillan, 1926 - 200 pages |
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... human beings , with eyes and lips and ears like any queen ? What right had anybody in the wide world to smile and be glad , when sights like this were to be seen ? He did what he could , wishing yet afraid to do the last mercy by ...
... human beings , with eyes and lips and ears like any queen ? What right had anybody in the wide world to smile and be glad , when sights like this were to be seen ? He did what he could , wishing yet afraid to do the last mercy by ...
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... human flesh ; and he himself was to discover that the open vices acquired from Europeans had not driven out the secret vice of cannibalism . He had heard of an English crew which , ignorant of the people , had been lured into the bay ...
... human flesh ; and he himself was to discover that the open vices acquired from Europeans had not driven out the secret vice of cannibalism . He had heard of an English crew which , ignorant of the people , had been lured into the bay ...
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... “ first captain of the top " . Of no other man does he speak with such admiration and love , finding in him some- thing heroic yet all human . An educated man , wise as Ulysses , shining as Nelson , azure - eyed 32 CHAP . HERMAN MELVILLE.
... “ first captain of the top " . Of no other man does he speak with such admiration and love , finding in him some- thing heroic yet all human . An educated man , wise as Ulysses , shining as Nelson , azure - eyed 32 CHAP . HERMAN MELVILLE.
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... humanity among men and laws - all exhibit him as a natural , unwarped , unsophisticated being . The other being that was hidden within him , the spirit of genius that was about to spring full - grown from his side , was until then lying ...
... humanity among men and laws - all exhibit him as a natural , unwarped , unsophisticated being . The other being that was hidden within him , the spirit of genius that was about to spring full - grown from his side , was until then lying ...
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... enjoy a healthy association with his fellow in creative art . Hitherto this had been lacking , but his natural tendency to solitary intro- 15 years differen spection could now be checked by human companion- ship , Pittsfield THORNE.
... enjoy a healthy association with his fellow in creative art . Hitherto this had been lacking , but his natural tendency to solitary intro- 15 years differen spection could now be checked by human companion- ship , Pittsfield THORNE.
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Page 92 - And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Page 51 - I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose, — that, I fear, can seldom be mine.
Page 54 - What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,— it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
Page 124 - ... and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.
Page 134 - Billy stood facing aft. At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance, were these: "God bless Captain Vere!
Page 56 - His nose is straight and rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility and emotion. He is tall, and erect, with an air free, brave and manly. When conversing, he is full of gesture and force, and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace, nor polish. Once in a while, his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression...
Page 124 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 119 - And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath — O Father! — chiefly known to me by Thy rod — mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is — n nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?
Page 132 - Contrary to the effect intended, these words so fatherly in tone, doubtless touching Billy's heart to the quick, prompted yet more violent efforts at utterance...
Page 128 - Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.