Literature and Lore of the SeaPatricia Ann Carlson Rodopi, 1986 - 288 sidor Distributor statement from label on ser. t.p. |
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The Presence of Walden in Joshua | 161 |
Poes Other Beautiful Woman | 176 |
Whitmans Liquid | 185 |
Melvilles TruthSeeker and the Sea | 193 |
Inner and Outer Seas in Dickinson Dana Cooper | 202 |
Lore is a FourLetter Word | 215 |
The Selchie in Legend and Literature | 225 |
Four Recent American Novelists | 232 |
Rolvaags New World Sea | 244 |
Death and the Mermaid in Baroque | 256 |
Boat Names and the Poetics of Newport Waters | 275 |
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Sida 6 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Sida 6 - dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me...
Sida 45 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Sida 172 - Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Sida 198 - Delight is to him - a far, far upward, and inward delight - who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self. Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
Sida 13 - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.
Sida 198 - No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this thing ; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen. Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connexions...
Sida 198 - Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!
Sida 8 - She drove in the dark to leeward, She struck — not a reef or a rock But the combs of a smother of sand: night drew her Dead to the Kentish Knock...
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