 Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams ; for a transitory enchanted moment man must...  Love and Death in the American Novel - Page 315by Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 512 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1925 - 194 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | John Logan Allen - 1997 - 684 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees . . . had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(July 4, 1913). Also attributed to several others, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Bill Nye. 3 For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | Shaun O'Connell - 1997 - 400 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — afresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered to the last and greatest of all human dreams; fora transitory enchanted moment man must have held his... | |
 | Louise H. Westling - 1996 - 228 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | John McCormick - 1971 - 348 pages
...Dutch sailors seeing Long Island for the first time, 'a fresh, green breast of the new world . . . for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | Thomas Scanlan - 1999 - 268 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 194 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pages
...flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had...held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last... | |
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