...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...

...a third-story room, and work and slave on my " Whale " while it is driving through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled...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...

...myself in a third-story room, and work and slave on my Whale while it is driving through the press. That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled...mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is for ever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me, — I shall...

...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...

...press, for it seemed at the moment that only so could he finish it, pulled hither and thither as he was by circumstances. " The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me ; and the malicious Devil is for ever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar." Domesticity was not a perfect refuge for his...

...press, for it seemed at the moment that only so could he finish it, pulled hither and thither as he was by circumstances. "The calm, the coolness, the silent...mine. Dollars damn me ; and the malicious Devil is for ever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar." Domesticity was not a perfect refuge for his...

...'Whale' while it is driving through the press," he told Nathaniel in one of his frequent letters. "That is the only way I can finish it now, — I am so pulled...coolness, the silent grassgrowing mood in which a rrtan ought always to compose, — that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious...

...be written and at once: no time for revision, no time for finish, no time even for careful thought. "The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing...mood in which a man ought always to compose — that can seldom be mine. . . . What I feel most moved to write, that is damned — it will not pay. Yet,...

...clearest. The presage is in his famous letter to Hawthorne, as he had to hurry Moby Dick to an end: I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances....—that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me — What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,— it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the...