Date: 1838
"The Captain's heart, although unused to melt, / A strong impression from persuasion felt;"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: November and December 1853, 1856
"To befriend Bartleby; to humor him in his strange wilfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience."
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"His mind appeared unstrung, if not still more seriously affected."
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"Ah, these currents spin one's head round almost as much as they do the ship."
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"As his foot pressed the half-damp, half-dry sea-mosses matting the place, and a chance phantom cat's-paw--an islet of breeze, unheralded, unfollowed--as this ghostly cat's-paw came fanning his cheek, his glance fell upon the row of small, round dead-lights, all closed like coppered eyes of the c...
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"For a moment, knot in hand, and knot in head, Captain Delano stood mute; while, without further heeding him, the old man was now intent upon other ropes."
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"'Ah, my dear Don Amasa,' Don Benito once said, 'at those very times when you thought me so morose and ungrateful--nay when, as you now admit, you half thought me plotting your murder--at those very times my heart was frozen; I could not look at you, thinking of what, both on board this ship and ...
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1855, 1856
"The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites; and across the Plaza looked toward St. Bartholomew's church, in whose vaults slept then, as now, the recovered bones of Aranda; and across the R...
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1859
"Not one of the three could could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of mind, as from the eyes of the body."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)