 | Constance Rourke - History - 2004 - 284 pages
...but a seed, being planted in English soil, it developed itself, grew to greenness, and then fell into mold. So I. Until I was twenty-five, I had no development...and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I now feel that I am come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must come to... | |
 | Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 593 pages
...seed, being planted in English soil, it developed itself, gtew to gteenness, and then fell to mould, So I, Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all, Ftom my twenty-fifth yeat I date my life, Thtee weeks have scatcely passed, at any time between then... | |
 | Giles B. Gunn - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 271 pages
...Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1851, dating the origin of his life just where Stedman would locate the close. "Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now," he added, "that I have not unfolded within myself."2 Melville was alluding to that remarkable drama... | |
 | Raychel Haugrud Reiff - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 166 pages
...new chapter in Herman Melville's life. He declared to novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne some years later: "Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twentyfifth year I date my life" (Leyda, 1:189). Writing for a Living Melville spent the next twelve years, from fall 1844 to spring... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1987 - 859 pages
...past" — specifically, since 1844, when he returned home from the Pacific and began to compose Typee. "From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks...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... | |
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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. 
