Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... facts by an in- sufficient knowledge of Melville's life and works . The current opinion was thus expressed by an uncircumspect critic at the time of Melville's centenary in 1919 : " Owing to some odd psy- chological experience , that ...
... facts by an in- sufficient knowledge of Melville's life and works . The current opinion was thus expressed by an uncircumspect critic at the time of Melville's centenary in 1919 : " Owing to some odd psy- chological experience , that ...
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... facts . Throughout Melville's long life his warring and untamed desires were in violent conflict with his physical and spiritual environment . His whole history is the record of an attempt to escape from an inexorable and intolerable ...
... facts . Throughout Melville's long life his warring and untamed desires were in violent conflict with his physical and spiritual environment . His whole history is the record of an attempt to escape from an inexorable and intolerable ...
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... fact and the moral the induc- tion ; only when its representation is as imaginatively real as its meaning ; only when the stones are interesting boulders in a rich and diversified landscape . So broadly and vividly is Moby - Dick based ...
... fact and the moral the induc- tion ; only when its representation is as imaginatively real as its meaning ; only when the stones are interesting boulders in a rich and diversified landscape . So broadly and vividly is Moby - Dick based ...
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... fact , sent more bulky consignments on ahead . And at the final crack of doom , this dead and disappointed mariner may yet rise to an unexpected rejoicing . For at that time of ultimate reckoning , according to the eschatology of Mr ...
... fact , sent more bulky consignments on ahead . And at the final crack of doom , this dead and disappointed mariner may yet rise to an unexpected rejoicing . For at that time of ultimate reckoning , according to the eschatology of Mr ...
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... facts unknown to Melville , it would be an ostentatious ir- relevancy to flaunt it in his biography . But Melville was ironically conscious of his lineage , and when his earlier novels had won him reputation at home and in England as an ...
... facts unknown to Melville , it would be an ostentatious ir- relevancy to flaunt it in his biography . But Melville was ironically conscious of his lineage , and when his earlier novels had won him reputation at home and in England as an ...
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Página 37 - I SAw him once before, As he passed by the door; And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if he said,
Página 121 - And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life ; and this is the key to it all.
Página 68 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?' O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Página 330 - Melville, as he always does, began to reason of Providence and futurity, and of everything that lies beyond human ken, and informed me that he had 'pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated;' but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation, and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before — in wandering to and fro over these deserts, as dismal and monotonous as...
Página 137 - The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in 'ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
Página 316 - I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head ! I had rather be a fool with a heart, than Jupiter Olympus with his head. The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
Página 330 - He can neither believe, nor be. comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other. If he were a religious man, he would be one of the most truly religious and reverential ; he has a very high and noble nature, and better worth immortality than most of us.
Página 320 - After supper, I put Julian to bed; and Melville and I had a talk about time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters...
Página 140 - Quincunxes," as Coleridge pithily says, "in heaven above, quincunxes in earth below, quincunxes in the mind of men, quincunxes in tones, in optic nerves, in roots of trees, in leaves, in everything.
Página 353 - OH, ye ! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain...