The Piazza Tales Quotes

I was touched. I said something in condolence with him. I hinted that of course he did wisely in abstaining from writing for a while… (2.133)

It informed me that the writer had sent to the police, and had Bartleby removed to the Tombs as a vagrant. (2.216)

In summer, too…sitting here, one is often reminded of the sea. …the vastness and the lonesomeness are so oceanic, and the silence and sameness too, that the first peep of a strange house, risin...

…the living spectacle [a ship] contains, upon its sudden and complete disclosure, has, in contrast with the blank ocean which zones it, something of the effect of enchantment. The ship seems unre...

"With fairest flowers/Whilst summer last, and I live here, Fidele—" (1.1-2)

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. (1.2)

…the cross-legged figures of six other blacks; each with a rusty hatchet in his hand, which, with a bit of brick and a rag, he was engaged like a scullion in scoring…" (3.17)

No more; I'll launch my yawl—ho, cheerly, heart! and push away for fairy-land—for rainbow's end, in fairy land. (1.29)