Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... mind , " Mel- ville has , indeed , survived as an obscure adventurer in strange seas and among amiable barbarians . Typee and Omoo have lived on as minor classics . Though there have been staccato and sporadic attacks upon the ludicrous ...
... mind , " Mel- ville has , indeed , survived as an obscure adventurer in strange seas and among amiable barbarians . Typee and Omoo have lived on as minor classics . Though there have been staccato and sporadic attacks upon the ludicrous ...
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... mind : an idolatry that threat- ens to reduce all art to the extinction of unendurable excel- lence . How insipid would be the mere adventures of a Don Quixote recounted by a Stevenson . The astonishing variety of contradictory ...
... mind : an idolatry that threat- ens to reduce all art to the extinction of unendurable excel- lence . How insipid would be the mere adventures of a Don Quixote recounted by a Stevenson . The astonishing variety of contradictory ...
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... mind to be annihilated , " wrote Hawthorne in his Note - book , after Melville visited him in Southport , England , in 1856 ; “ but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation . It is strange how he persists - as he has ...
... mind to be annihilated , " wrote Hawthorne in his Note - book , after Melville visited him in Southport , England , in 1856 ; “ but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation . It is strange how he persists - as he has ...
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... mind , his life such a tragic career of dreaming of elusive perfection , dreams invariably to be dashed and bruised and shattered by an incompatible reality , that it is safe to sur- mise - with no impiety to the memory of Peter GHOSTS 39.
... mind , his life such a tragic career of dreaming of elusive perfection , dreams invariably to be dashed and bruised and shattered by an incompatible reality , that it is safe to sur- mise - with no impiety to the memory of Peter GHOSTS 39.
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... mind over unconscious matter , even in its fair- est terms , " gave Allan opportunity to pay Maria a veiled compliment . This same Anna Letitia Barbauld , whose introductory essay gave the final stamp of respectability to Dr. Akenside ...
... mind over unconscious matter , even in its fair- est terms , " gave Allan opportunity to pay Maria a veiled compliment . This same Anna Letitia Barbauld , whose introductory essay gave the final stamp of respectability to Dr. Akenside ...
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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.