Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... leave this a rhetorical query , Melville an- swers his own catechism in unambiguous terms : " I should say that considering Pierre was quite young and very unsophisti- cated as yet , and withal rather high - blooded ; and sometimes read ...
... leave this a rhetorical query , Melville an- swers his own catechism in unambiguous terms : " I should say that considering Pierre was quite young and very unsophisti- cated as yet , and withal rather high - blooded ; and sometimes read ...
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... leaves from this cargo of tea : the carefully preserved shakings from Major Melville's shoes , resurrected when he relaxed into slip- pers immediately upon his return home from the excitements of revolutionary defiance . Though Major ...
... leaves from this cargo of tea : the carefully preserved shakings from Major Melville's shoes , resurrected when he relaxed into slip- pers immediately upon his return home from the excitements of revolutionary defiance . Though Major ...
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... leaves . The first is in a formal upright hand , rigid in pro- priety : " Prudence should be the governing principle of Woman's existence , domestick life her peculiar sphere ; no rank can exempt her from an observation of the laws of ...
... leaves . The first is in a formal upright hand , rigid in pro- priety : " Prudence should be the governing principle of Woman's existence , domestick life her peculiar sphere ; no rank can exempt her from an observation of the laws of ...
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... leave Albany , and settle in what he appreciatively called " the greatest universal mart in the world . " On May 12 , 1819 , he records in his journal : " Commenced Housekeeping at No. 6 Park Street , New York . L Mrs. M. & the children ...
... leave Albany , and settle in what he appreciatively called " the greatest universal mart in the world . " On May 12 , 1819 , he records in his journal : " Commenced Housekeeping at No. 6 Park Street , New York . L Mrs. M. & the children ...
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... leaving town every summer , which deprives me altogether of their society . I shall also re- move professionally on the 1st of May to No. 102 Pearl St. up- stairs in the very focus of Business & surrounded by the auc- tion rooms which ...
... leaving town every summer , which deprives me altogether of their society . I shall also re- move professionally on the 1st of May to No. 102 Pearl St. up- stairs in the very focus of Business & surrounded by the auc- tion rooms which ...
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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 41 - 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 127 - 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 74 - 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 336 - 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 135 - By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
Página 29 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.
Página 336 - 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 143 - 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 328 - You did not care a penny for the book. But, now and then as you read, you understood the pervading thought that impelled the book— and that you praised. Was it not so? You were archangel enough to despise the imperfect body, and embrace the soul.
Página 329 - Ah! it's a long stage, and no inn in sight, and night coming, and the body cold. But with you for a passenger, I am content and can be happy. I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality.