...have had a premonition of waning power, for in the letter to Hawthorne previously quoted he wrote: "The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ovfitit always to compose — that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious...

...through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me ; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall...

...through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ouglit always to compose, — that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious...

...through the press. T/iat is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall...

...through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me ; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall...

...through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent...for ever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall at last be worn out and perish, like an old nutmeg-grater,...

...must not fail to admire my discretion in paying the postage on this letter." When Melville speaks of "the calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought to compose," he has caught a demoralisation from Hawthorne. Moby-Dick, he says, was "broiled in hell-fire"...

...have had a premonition of waning power, for in the letter to Hawthorne previously quoted he wrote: "The calm, the -coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man oiifllit always to compose — that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious...

...desk all day, his wife says, not writing anything till four or five o'clock ; he knew, in fact, the painful pauses and hesitations of creation, the despairing...refuge for his inquietude, and it was out of such misgivings, fervour and anguish that his masterpiece was produced. And out of these, too, mingling...

...frequent letters. "That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me ; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall...