Pierre; Or the AmbiguitiesE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1929 - 416 sider |
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Apostles aunt beautiful beneath brother cerning chamber child chronometrical conceit cousin Ralph cried Pierre Curaçoa dark dear Pierre Delly door Enceladus entirely eternal eyes face Falsgrave fancy Fate father feel felt forever gazed girl glance Glen grand old Pierre grief guitar hand hath heard heart heaven heavenly Herman Melville hint hour human incest infinite knew lady letter light little Pierre look Lucy Tartan Lucy's manorial marriage melan Melville Memnon Millthorpe mind Moby Dick mood morning mother mystery mystical ness never night noble once painted passed Pierre Glendinning Pierre's Plinlimmon Plotinus portrait possible present round Saddle Meadows secret seemed silent sister smile sometimes sort soul speak stand stood strange suddenly tell thee things thou art thou hast thought Truth turned Ulver vague wholly woman wonderful word young youth
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Side 235 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Side 476 - Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.
Side 396 - ... latent infiniteness and inexhaustibility in himself ; that all the great books in the world are but the mutilated shadowings-forth of invisible and eternally unembodied images in the soul ; so that they are but the mirrors, distortedly reflecting to us our own things ; and never mind what the mirror may be, if we would see the object, we must look at the object itself, and not at its reflection.
Side xv - I call to ye ! If to follow Virtue to her uttermost vista, where common souls never go ; if by that I take hold on hell, and the uttermost virtue, after all, prove but a betraying pander to the monstrousest vice, — then close in and crush me, ye stony walls, and into one gulf let all things tumble together...
Side 43 - Oh, praised be the beauty of this earth, the beauty, and the 'bloom, and the mirthfulness thereof! The first worlds made were winter worlds; the second made, were vernal worlds; the third, and last, and perfectest, was this summer world of ours. In the cold and nether spheres, preachers preach of earth, as we of Paradise above. Oh...
Side 151 - But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
Side 499 - For ye two, my most undiluted prayer is now, that from your here unseen and frozen chairs ye may never stir alive; — the fool of Truth, the fool of Virtue, the fool of Fate, now quits ye forever!
Side 358 - Youth must wholly quit, then, the quarry, for a while ; and not only go forth, and get tools to use in the quarry, but must go and thoroughly study architecture. Now the quarry-discoverer is long before the stone-cutter ; and the stone-cutter is long before the architect ; and the architect is long before the temple ; for the temple is the crown of the world.
Side 235 - The time is out of joint ; — Oh cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right...
Side 231 - Viewed through that rarified atmosphere the most immemorially admitted maxims of men begin to slide and fluctuate, and finally become wholly inverted; the very heavens themselves being not innocent of producing this confounding...