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474 Herman Melville

The History of Literature

CHAPTER

The Importance of Fame

"i employ a capital initial in the pro non referring to the deity don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkism in that usage another thing i was in new york for four and twenty hours the other day and saw a portrait of n h," he writes. "I have come to regard this matter of fame as the most transparent of all vanities and every time see deeper and deeper and unspeakable meanings in him" He says his development has been all within a few years past, like one of those seeds taken out of the egyptian pyramids which developed itself grew to greenness then fell to mold.

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