Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... looked from the " wonderful , wonderful eyes " of her husband - each eye " like a violet with a soul in it , " - to Mel- ville's eyes , and confessed to her mother her grave and jealous suspicion of Melville : " I am not quite sure that ...
... looked from the " wonderful , wonderful eyes " of her husband - each eye " like a violet with a soul in it , " - to Mel- ville's eyes , and confessed to her mother her grave and jealous suspicion of Melville : " I am not quite sure that ...
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... looked back upon his descent with self - conscious pride : a pride drawn by childhood absorption from his parents who , by resting on the achievements of their forebears , added sev- eral cubits to their stature . Lacking the prophetic ...
... looked back upon his descent with self - conscious pride : a pride drawn by childhood absorption from his parents who , by resting on the achievements of their forebears , added sev- eral cubits to their stature . Lacking the prophetic ...
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... looked back upon it as perhaps the most fortunate privilege of his youth , that this first visit to Albany set the precedent for a whole series of similar summers . He is ideal- ising from his own experience when he says of Pierre ...
... looked back upon it as perhaps the most fortunate privilege of his youth , that this first visit to Albany set the precedent for a whole series of similar summers . He is ideal- ising from his own experience when he says of Pierre ...
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... is not invariably , of course , strict history . Some of his idealisations of his life with the Gansevoorts have already been given . Through the refracting films of memory he at times looked back upon " those far 72 HERMAN MELVILLE.
... is not invariably , of course , strict history . Some of his idealisations of his life with the Gansevoorts have already been given . Through the refracting films of memory he at times looked back upon " those far 72 HERMAN MELVILLE.
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... looked so manly . " Melville confesses here to a precocious exercise of the poetic imagination : a type of imagination for which the consistent disappointments of his life were to be the invariable penalty . In the prosaic man , in ...
... looked so manly . " Melville confesses here to a precocious exercise of the poetic imagination : a type of imagination for which the consistent disappointments of his life were to be the invariable penalty . In the prosaic man , in ...
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Acushnet Admiral adventures Albany Albany Academy Allan American ashore beautiful boat Boston brethren Broadhall brother cannibals Captain Captain Cook civilisation Clarel crew cruise dear deck delight England eyes father feel forecastle French hand Hawthorne head heart heaven Herman Melville honour islands Jack Chase journal Julian Hawthorne land Lansingburg letter literary lived Liverpool London London Missionary Society looked Mardi Maria Marquesas mast mate Melville says Melville's ment missionaries Moby-Dick Monthly Magazine mother Nantucket natives never night ocean Omoo Pacific Peter Gansevoort Pierre Pittsfield Polynesian Pomare Putnam's Monthly Magazine Redburn romantic sail sailors savages says Melville seems ship ship's sight soul South Seas strange Street survives Tahiti thing Thomas Melville thought tion Toby Typee vessels ville's voyage walk weeks whaling White-Jacket wife write wrote York youth
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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...