 | Watson G. Branch - American fiction - 1997 - 472 pages
...seed, being planted in English soil, it developed itself, grew to greenness, and then fell to mould. So I. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development...and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1997 - 522 pages
...bemg planted m tnghsh soiL it developed itself, grew m grecnness, and then fell to mould. So L Cmil I was twenty-five, I had no development at alL From my twenty-fifth yeat I date my hfe. Threc wecks have scatcely passed, at any time betwecn then and now. lhai I have... | |
 | Susan L. Mizruchi - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 496 pages
...replace the theological skin I do not yet see."18 Compare this to Melville's famous image of 1851, "Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between...and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to... | |
 | Geoffrey Sanborn - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 274 pages
...says in a letter to Hawthorne, the good thing about his life since his return from the sea is that "[t]hree weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between...and now, that I have not unfolded within myself." The bad thing about this intensely interior life is that afterimages of experience always dim as they... | |
 | Greg Dening - History - 1998 - 268 pages
...genius'. The two friends talked about writing. 'From my twenty-fifth year 1 date my life', said Melville. Three weeks have scarcely passed at any time between then and now, that 1 have not unfolded within myself.' Over the previous five years, Melville had written Typee and its... | |
 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...from the Pacific in 1844. Until that year, he writes in a now familiar passage from the same letter, "I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth...and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to... | |
 | Tony Tanner - Literary Collections - 2000 - 276 pages
...number of invented or interpolated episodes - in IVhite-Jacket. In June 1851 he wrote to Hawthorne: 'Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life.'"1 That twenty-fifth birthday occurred shortly before the end of his voyage on the United States.... | |
 | Sanford E. Marovitz, A. K. Christodoulou, Athanasios C. Christodoulou - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 630 pages
...self-assessment in a letter to Hawthorne: "Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all," he said. "From my twentyfifth year I date my life. Three weeks...then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself' (NN Correspondence, 193). Along with other early Melville scholars, Leon Howard used these lines to... | |
 | John Bryant - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 212 pages
...of finishing Moby-Dick to write his friend, Melville considered his "development" up to that point. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all....and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...he was completing Moby Dick. In it he said, "My development has been all within a few years past." Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all....weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then & now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of... | |
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Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. 
