10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAMESOMENESS»
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gamesomeness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Self-formation; or, The history of an individual mind, by a ...
The mind must have its Sabbath, and if it make that Sabbath, or some part of it, a
holiday, a day of gamesomeness, it will be none the worse for it. The man who is
always reading on, and never resting, is in faGt running away from his ...
2
Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity
For all his “romantic, melancholy” moodiness and dreaminess, Ishmael is also
imbued with the spirit of “godly gamesomeness.” This spirit, which Ishmael also
dubs a “genial, desperado philosophy,” is second nature to sailors, he says, for
they ...
The mind must have its Sabbath, and if it make that Sabbath, or some part of it, a
holiday, a day of gamesomeness, it will be none the worse for it. The man who is
always reading on, and never resting, is in fact running away from his ...
4
Conti the discarded: with other tales and fancies
agreeable to read ; all the gamesomeness of youth was there — none of its
guilelessness ; all the impulse of a childish will, with some of the artifice of a full
grown woman. Her eyes were kind, but not truthful; her mouth firmly, but not
naturally, ...
Henry Fothergill Chorley,
1835
5
Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine: ...
See Warwick Wadlington, "Ishmael's Godly Gamesomeness: Selftaste and
Rhetoric in Moby-Dick," ELH 39 (1972): 309—31. 42. See Warner Berthoff's fine
discussion of Stubb in Example ofMelville, 105-8. 43. Camus, Myth ofSisyphus,
10. 44.
Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis,
2005
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The critical response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
1 Gamesomeness can be taken as the generic term for a significant constellation
of luetic motifs in the novel. The trait helps to establish the porpoises's kinship
with their larger cousins, the Hump-Back whales, who are "the most gamesome ...
Describing a particular type of porpoise, he coins the name "Huzza Porpoise,"
explaining, "If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these
vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye
" (MD ...
8
Finden's tableaux. A series of picturesque scenes of ...
... southern courser, and Oscar had won a cup from a round dozen of competitors
from Newmarket, brought on purpose to oppose him), and whom Jeanie
delighted in for his gamesomeness, was the constant attendant of their long
rambles.
Mary Russell Mitford,
1838
9
Sketch of a Descriptive Journey Through Switzerland
It was amusing , and indeed curious, to observe the gamesomeness of the
shores, whenever we made towards some new bay; or, proceeding along the
main channel, arrived at those parts where' it takes a sudden turn; as it does
many times ...
10
Vienna and the Austrians: With some account of a journey ...
Their brawny son, however, appeared inspired with the very soul of fun and
gamesomeness. Never did a living lump throw itself into attitudes of such comic
awkwardness ; and when the spectators skilfully aimed a cake, so as to make it
drop at ...
Frances Milton Trollope,
1838
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