...to hear it, and hope you will keep good till I come back. Your loving father, NATII. HAWTHORNE. — At Southport the chief event of interest during the...does not seem to rest in that anticipation, and I thiuk will never rest until he gets hold of some definite belief. It is strange how he persists —...

...have been written only by a mind which looked into eternity from a very different point of view. " He informed me that he had ' pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated :' *Vol. i.,pp. 128-129. bat still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation, and I think will...

...have been written only by a mind which looked into eternity from a very different point of view. " He informed me that he had ' pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated ;' * Vol. i., pp. 128-129. but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation, and I think will...

...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...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...

...again he expresses these presentiments of a premature winter of the soul. In 1856 he told Hawthorne that he had "pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated." He made two journeys through the world, silently, as if looking for something; then, a Samson at the...

...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 docs not seem to rest in that anticipation; and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite...

...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...and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. 26 Melville obviously thought of Hawthorne as inviting or sponsoring a particular...

...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...he does not seem to rest in that anticipation; and, 1 think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. It is strange how he persists - and...

...fundamental traits, his survival instinct. True, he told Hawthorne as they rested among the sand hills that he had "pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated." Hawthorne's thoughtful response in his journal to this often-quoted statement, however, says more about...

...success. Possibly, after all, it was the artist, as much as the religious quester, who told Hawthorne that he had "pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated." Means and Ends in Billy Budd Christopher W. Sten SINCE THE 1962 appearance of the Hayford-Sealts edition...