That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness.
Herman MelvilleI leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?
Herman MelvilleEgo non baptiso te in nomine...but make out the rest yourself.
Herman MelvilleFrighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
Herman Melvillefor I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool...
Herman Melvilleall deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea
Herman MelvilleBut this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.
Herman MelvilleThe morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
Herman MelvilleMots clés foreshadow at-sea
What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.
Herman MelvilleBook! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
Herman MelvilleMots clés books
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