"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Monday, January 8, 2018
Box 2--A major source for Melville, all but overlooked--MODERN BRITISH ESSAYISTS
After buying it early in 1849 Melville used it almost immediately for REDBURN. These are not precisely "Fine" copies but they were what I could afford and what I could find before there was an Internet.
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