Herman MelvilleMacmillan, 1926 - 200 pages |
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... truth , and the universal insincerity of the greatest and purest written thoughts ; an after wisdom , for it is not in first youth that we make these private discoveries , and although Melville's experiences in his first voyage 18415 21 ...
... truth , and the universal insincerity of the greatest and purest written thoughts ; an after wisdom , for it is not in first youth that we make these private discoveries , and although Melville's experiences in his first voyage 18415 21 ...
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... truth , as has already been said , he was not a man of action , he was not a wanderer though at times he travelled as age grew on him . The restlessness that urges others abroad to see the world , urged him now to stay at home and ...
... truth , as has already been said , he was not a man of action , he was not a wanderer though at times he travelled as age grew on him . The restlessness that urges others abroad to see the world , urged him now to stay at home and ...
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... Truth is the silliest thing under the sun . Try to get a living by Truth - and go to the Soup Societies . Heavens ! . " A presentiment is on me - I shall at last be worn out and perish , like an old nutmeg - grater , grated to pieces by ...
... Truth is the silliest thing under the sun . Try to get a living by Truth - and go to the Soup Societies . Heavens ! . " A presentiment is on me - I shall at last be worn out and perish , like an old nutmeg - grater , grated to pieces by ...
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... truth with a view to popular con- servatism . His reminiscence becomes more precise when he writes : " I am like one of those seeds taken out of the Egyptian Pyramids , which , after being three thousand years a seed and nothing but a ...
... truth with a view to popular con- servatism . His reminiscence becomes more precise when he writes : " I am like one of those seeds taken out of the Egyptian Pyramids , which , after being three thousand years a seed and nothing but a ...
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... truth about him is that he says No ! in thunder , and the devil himself cannot make Hawthorne say Yes . All men , he concludes , who say Yes , lie . How Hawthorne received this is not recorded , nor how he wrote to Melville concerning ...
... truth about him is that he says No ! in thunder , and the devil himself cannot make Hawthorne say Yes . All men , he concludes , who say Yes , lie . How Hawthorne received this is not recorded , nor how he wrote to Melville concerning ...
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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.