 If not, then far be it from a great nation now to act in the spirit that animated a triumphant town-faction in the Middle Ages. But crowding thoughts must at last be checked; and, in times like the present, one who desires to be impartially just in the...  John Marr and Other Poems - Page 125by Herman Melville - 1922 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - History - 1866 - 288 pages
...who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials — we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor...expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. ... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1924 - 456 pages
...their fidelity through terrible trials — we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honour them. Yet passionate sympathy, with resentments so...beloved country through terror and pity ; and may fulfilment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. JOHN... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1924 - 456 pages
...maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honour them. Yet passionate sympathy, with resentments so...beloved country through terror and pity ; and may fulfilment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. JOHN... | |
 | F. O. Matthiessen - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 722 pages
...progress in 1866, and which could be understood only by a man who had mastered the meaning of suffering: 'Let us pray that the terrible historic tragedy of...our whole beloved country through terror and pity.' Clarel (1876), completed a considerable interval before its publication, 5. The official position of... | |
 | John H. Schaar - Political Science - 1981 - 372 pages
...Or, as he put it in the Supplement to Battle- Pieces, in what amounts to a prayer for rededication: "Let us pray that the terrible historic tragedy of...which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity." An Ethic of Action Can we find in Melville suggestions toward an ethic of action? To start, let us... | |
 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - Novelists, American - 1982 - 446 pages
...with a voice like that of the young Melville though with Aristotelian overtones, he offered a prayer "that the terrible historic tragedy of our time may...which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity." But it is the older Melville, emergent in the fifties and studied here in his brief role as lecturer,... | |
 | John McWilliams - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 284 pages
...The "Supplement" thus suggests that Aristotelian terms are applicable to the entire American people: "Let us pray that the terrible historic tragedy of...expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity" (p. 202). The poem that ends the first section of Battle-Pieces, "America," affirms that national catharsis... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...authors remain far removed from Machiavelli and classical politics. "Let us pray," wrote Melville, "that the terrible historic tragedy of our time may...instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity."90 Machiavelli would have accepted the terror but not the pity. Machiavelli's distinction between... | |
 | Daniel Aaron - American literature - 1987 - 430 pages
..."Insurrection" would again be permitted to hold national office. "Let us pray," Melville concluded, "that the terrible historic tragedy of our time may...which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity." The note of dubiety or of qualified hope in Melville's prayer is a fitting finale to a volume which... | |
 | Louis P. Masur - History - 1995 - 316 pages
...maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honour them. Yet passionate sympathy, with resentments so...expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. jyp;;.;. William Gilmore Simms, circa 1859 (Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library) William Gilmore... | |
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