Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames? Great Short Works of Herman Melville - Seite 73von Herman Melville - 2004 - 512 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| John Freeman - 1926 - 232 Seiten
...life is displayed ; he had been employed in the Dead Letter Office and suddenly lost his position. " Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a...these dead letters, and assorting them for. the flames ? " Ironic postscript tn " Pathos is absent from the greatest of these stories, " Benito Cereno ",... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 228 Seiten
...displayed ; he had been employed in the Dead Letter Office and suddenly lost his position. " Conceive a^man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness;...continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them^for-the flames ? " Ironic postscript to Pathos is absent from the greatest of these stories, "... | |
| Herman Melville - 2006 - 322 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...takes a ring — the finger it was meant for, perhaps, molders in the grave; a bank note sent in swiftest charity — he whom it would relieve nor eats nor... | |
| Herman Melville - 1986 - 420 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring-the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity... | |
| Arnold Weinstein - 1993 - 362 Seiten
...grapheme est d'essence testamentaire," and goes on to interpret the famous scene of undelivered letters, "Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk...takes a ring— the finger it was meant for, perhaps, molders in the grave," as a textbook illustration of differance itself: "La lettre, par 1'effet de... | |
| Tom Cohen - 1994 - 292 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness . . . Sometimes from out the folded paper a pale clerk takes a ring — the finger it was meant for,... | |
| Dieter Meindl - 1996 - 262 Seiten
...second option, the epilogue is the narrator's "last sentimental gesture." 18 But is it? Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring:—the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the gtave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity:—he... | |
| Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead leners! doer it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelersness, can any business seem more fined to heighten it than that of continually handling there... | |
| Herman Melville - 1997 - 522 Seiten
...over this rumor, hatdly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound hke dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a palhd hopelessness, can any busmess seem more fitted to heighten it than that of contmnally handlmg... | |
| S. Paige Baty - 1999 - 176 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumour, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! Does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring—the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a banknote sent in swiftest charity—he... | |
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