Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... person , habits , manners and ideas of whales ; there are long dialogues and soliloquies such as were never spoken by mortal man in his waking senses , conversations that for sweetness , strength and courage remind one of passages from ...
... person , habits , manners and ideas of whales ; there are long dialogues and soliloquies such as were never spoken by mortal man in his waking senses , conversations that for sweetness , strength and courage remind one of passages from ...
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... person he felt that he contradicted the conceit of the European world " that in demagogical America the sacred Past hath no fixed statues erected to it , but ( that ) all things irreverently seethe and boil in the vulgar caldron of an ...
... person he felt that he contradicted the conceit of the European world " that in demagogical America the sacred Past hath no fixed statues erected to it , but ( that ) all things irreverently seethe and boil in the vulgar caldron of an ...
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... person of the mother of Pierre , and a vague memory handed down orally by her descendants . Maria was born in 1791 and died in 1871. Of her girlhood , little or nothing is very specifically known . After Melville's marriage , she spent ...
... person of the mother of Pierre , and a vague memory handed down orally by her descendants . Maria was born in 1791 and died in 1871. Of her girlhood , little or nothing is very specifically known . After Melville's marriage , she spent ...
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... person of Mrs. Glendinning . Mrs. Glendinning is presented as a " haughty widow ; a lady who externally furnished a singular example of the preservative and beautifying influences of un- fluctuating rank , health , and wealth , when ...
... person of Mrs. Glendinning . Mrs. Glendinning is presented as a " haughty widow ; a lady who externally furnished a singular example of the preservative and beautifying influences of un- fluctuating rank , health , and wealth , when ...
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... person who had been in stony Arabia and passed through strange adventures there , all of which with my own eyes I had read in the book which he wrote , an arid - looking book in a pale yellow cover . " See what big eyes he has ...
... person who had been in stony Arabia and passed through strange adventures there , all of which with my own eyes I had read in the book which he wrote , an arid - looking book in a pale yellow cover . " See what big eyes he has ...
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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...