 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 sidor
..."where we unmoor no more?" Not in "this world of lies," certainly, for here "Truth is forced to flee like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself." To the world, Melville felt, even such truth as men can attain is ridiculous—and from the antics... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1988 - 532 sidor
...own mind and that he had recently discerned "craftily" said or "insinuated" in Shakespeare's plays: "For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly...and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,—even though it be covertly, and by snatches." Hawthorne, too, he found to be such a truth-teller,... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 sidor
...openly or he may give offense and drive away his audience. "For in this world of lies," Melville says, "Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in...and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,—even though it be covertly, and by snatches." Shakespeare finds safety in refusing to speak... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 sidor
...recently discerned "craftily" said or "insinuated" in Shakespeare's plays: For in this world oflics. Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in...and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,—even though it be covertly, and by snatches. Hawthorne he found to be such a truth-teller,... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - 1984 - 244 sidor
...once safe harbors for such clever Clamences, may have rationalized their own values out of existence. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by glimpses will she reveal henelf, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of telling the... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - 1989 - 268 sidor
...describes it in a celebrated moment in "Hawthorne and His Mosses," is none other than the art of escape: "in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands." 9 Truth here assumes its characteristic Melvillean pose as the persecuted object. But it has other... | |
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 sidor
...this connection is Melville ready to say that blackness is part of the condition of things and that, "in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like...only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself. . . even though it be covertly, and by snatches" (542), and thus that intellect cannot weigh this world... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 sidor
...Shakspeare, it is not so much for what he did do as for what he did not do, or refrained from doing. For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakspeare... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 sidor
...and that he had recently discerned as "craftily" said or "insinuated" by Shakespeare in the plays: "For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare... | |
 | Watson G. Branch - 1997 - 472 sidor
...Shakspeare, it is not so much for what he did do as for what he did not do, or refrained from doing. For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly...by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakspeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly... | |
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For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakspeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly... 
