 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.  Herman Melville - Page 54by John Freeman - 1926 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1922 - 772 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." And with a touch of humor he adds: "I'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter." Being of an uncompromising... | |
 | 1884 - 540 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 546 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter; but see my hand! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 542 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 544 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. "What I feel most moved to write, that...banned, — it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the oilier way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1885 - 542 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1892 - 656 pages
...of self-advertisement and " business." " Dollars damn me," he remarks in one of his letters. " When I feel most moved to write, that is banned — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." That he felt keenly mortified at the ill success of " Pierre," is beyond question. When, on the occasion... | |
 | Herman Melville - Indigenous peoples - 1893 - 344 pages
...damn me," he remarks in one of his letters. " When I feel most moved to write, that is banned—it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." That he felt keenly mortified at the illsuccess of " Pierre " is beyond question. When, on the occasion... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - Authors, American - 1921 - 446 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 448 pages
...perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What^ I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it will not pay. J Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is_a_final hash, and all my books are... | |
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