 | 1922 - 772 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." And with a touch of humor he adds: "I'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter." Being of an uncompromising... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 546 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter; but see my hand! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 542 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 544 pages
...I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the oilier way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1885 - 542 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I 'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1893 - 344 pages
...damn me," he remarks in one of his letters. " When I feel most moved to write, that is banned—it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way...are botches." That he felt keenly mortified at the illsuccess of " Pierre " is beyond question. When, on the occasion of a tour in Europe, in 1856, he... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 446 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. I'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter ; but see my hand ! — four blisters on this palm, made by... | |
 | 1922 - 774 pages
...old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." And with a touch of humor he adds: "I'm rather sore, perhaps, in this letter." Being of an uncompromising... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1926 - 324 pages
...domestic lawn. As he wrote to Hawthorne at the beginning of these years : ' Dollars damn me. . . . What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, it will...product is a final hash and all my books are botches ! ' Thus was the blinded Samson set to grind chaff for the Philistine ; and except at rarest moments... | |
 | Carl Van Vechten - 1926 - 312 pages
...passage in this identical letter he refers to the compromise which appeared to be demanded of him: "\Vhat I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it...product is a final hash, and all my books are botches." As the particular botch on which he was then engaged was Moby Dick, I cannot regard as pertinent the... | |
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What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,— it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all -my books are botches. 
