 ... which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my...  In the Middle Watch - Side 210av William Clark Russell - 1890 - 291 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1884 - 946 sider
...than left undone ; if at my death my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all...remarkable character-drawing in this book : notably John Jermin, the mate of the Little Jule, and Doctor Long Ghost, the nickname given by the sailors to a... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 sider
...left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all...for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. •See subsequent chapters for something more on this head. CHAPTER XXV. POSTSCRIPT. IN behalf of the... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 438 sider
...I shall do anything that on the whole a man might rather have done than to have left undone, . . . then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and...a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." The record, then, of Melville's escape from the Dolly, otherwise the Acushnet, the sojourn of his companion... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 460 sider
...I shall do anything that on the whole a man might rather have done than to have left undone, . . . then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and...a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." The record, then, of Melville's escape from the Dolly, otherwise the Acushnet, the sojourn of his companion... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 484 sider
...anything that on the whole a man might rather have done than to have left undone, . . . then here 1 prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory...a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." The record, then, of Melville's escape from the Dolly, otherwise the Acushnet, the sojourn of his companion... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 448 sider
...left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all...a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." — HERMAN MELVILLE: Moby-Dick. IN 1892, the year after Melville's death, Arthur Stedman wrote a "Biographical... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 sider
...properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. CHAPTER XXV. POSTSCRIPT. IN behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1983 - 1470 sider
...properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Chapter 25 POSTSCRIPT IN BEHALF of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - 1986 - 464 sider
...properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard" (p. 101). 3 Crucial to an understanding of whaling in Moby-Dick is an awareness that in such a statement... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 sider
...properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Chapter 25 Postscript IN BEHALF OF THE DIGNITY of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated... | |
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