Herman Melville Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville

  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

• Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.

  Herman Melville

  Country, War, Expectations

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.272

• In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

  Herman Melville

  Country, Independence, Principles

  Herman Melville (2015). “Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville”, p.170, 谷月社

• No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Country, Dog

  Herman Melville (1974). “Moby Dick; or, The Whale”, p.23, Lulu.com

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