Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 399 páginas |
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... things manifold which now so much distress us . " This serene and laughing desolation - a mood which in Melville alternated with a deepening and less tranquil despair - is a spectacle to inspire with sardonic optimism thos who gloat ...
... things manifold which now so much distress us . " This serene and laughing desolation - a mood which in Melville alternated with a deepening and less tranquil despair - is a spectacle to inspire with sardonic optimism thos who gloat ...
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... things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . . . If after all these fearful fainting trances , the verdict be , the golden haven was not gained ; -yet in bold quest thereof , better to sink in boundless deeps than float on ...
... things before my prime , still fly before the gale . . . . . . If after all these fearful fainting trances , the verdict be , the golden haven was not gained ; -yet in bold quest thereof , better to sink in boundless deeps than float on ...
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... thing very accurately ; and how he can do so with his small eyes , I cannot tell . They are not keen eyes , either , but quite undistinguished in any way . His nose is straight and rather handsome , his mouth expressive of sensibility ...
... thing very accurately ; and how he can do so with his small eyes , I cannot tell . They are not keen eyes , either , but quite undistinguished in any way . His nose is straight and rather handsome , his mouth expressive of sensibility ...
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... thing on earth or in the waters under the earth is so interesting as the whale . How it is pursued , from the Arctic to the Ant- arctic ; how it is harpooned , to the peril of boat and crew ; how , when brought to the side , ' cutting ...
... thing on earth or in the waters under the earth is so interesting as the whale . How it is pursued , from the Arctic to the Ant- arctic ; how it is harpooned , to the peril of boat and crew ; how , when brought to the side , ' cutting ...
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... grass that is for- ever tropical , and to discourse pleasantly of all the things mani- fold which once so much distressed them . In my Father's house are many mansions . CHAPTER II GHOSTS " We are full of ghosts and 32 HERMAN MELVILLE.
... grass that is for- ever tropical , and to discourse pleasantly of all the things mani- fold which once so much distressed them . In my Father's house are many mansions . CHAPTER II GHOSTS " We are full of ghosts and 32 HERMAN MELVILLE.
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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.