 ... in my ear! One was a soft moaning, as of low waves on the beach; the other wild and heartlessly jubilant, as of the sea in the height of a tempest. Oh soul! thou then heardest life and death: as he who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 1601853Full view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 396 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^Egean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly...abreast of the mizzen-mast, the frigate slowly gliding by like a black world in the water. Her vast hull loomed out of the night, showing hundreds of seamen... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1922 - 402 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^Egean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly...in the blessed air. I had fallen in a line with the mam-mast; I now found myself nearly abreast of the mizzen-mast, the frigate slowly gliding by like... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 788 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the -¿Egean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly ascending, and caught a dim glimmering of light. •• ' "4.г'*'«ГТ"' » . • Quicker and quicker I mounted like a buoy, and my whole head \v... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 474 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the JEgestn waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly ascending; and caught a dun glimmering of light. / N Quicker and quicker I mounted; till at last I bounded up like a buoy,... | |
 | Franklin Matthews - 1909 - 358 pages
...jubilant, as of the sea in the height of a tempest. The life and death poise soon passed, and then I felt myself slowly ascending and caught a dim glimmering...and my whole head was bathed in the blessed air." That was just as it was and when the Sun man escaped from the tank he was greeted with more applause... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^gean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly...and my whole head was bathed in the blessed air." With his knife, Melville ripped off his jacket, struck out boldly towards the elevated pole of one... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 448 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^Egean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly...bounded up like a buoy, and my whole head was bathed Hn the blessed air." With his knife, Melville ripped off his jacket, struck out boldly towards the... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1922 - 524 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the Mge&n waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed ; and then I found myself slowly...main-mast ; I now found myself nearly abreast of the mizen-mast, the frigate slowly gliding by like a black world in the water. Her vast hull loomed out... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1922 - 524 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^Egean waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed ; and then I found myself slowly...main-mast ; I now found myself nearly abreast of the mizen-mast, the frigate slowly gliding by like a black world in the water. Her vast hull loomed out... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1970 - 520 pages
...who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the /Egcan waves. The life-and-death poise soon passed; and then I found myself slowly...buoy, and my whole head was bathed in the blessed air. Hinging overboard the hammocks; but I was too far out from them immediately to reach what they threw.... | |
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