Saturday, January 19, 2019

With what plus adjective plus noun

With what strange complacency ....
 --August 1853 installment of Scenes Beyond The Western Border; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army.
MOBY-DICK (1851)
with what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect posture in his boat --The First Lowering
with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away!  --Schools and Schoolmasters
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps --The Lamp

PIERRE (1852)
thereby intimating with what deep reverence his portrait would be handled
For he considered with what infinite readiness now, the most faithful portrait of any one could be taken by the Daguerreotype....
With what marvelous precision and exactitude he now went over in his mind all the minutest details of his old joyous life with his mother at Saddle Meadows.
In the August 1853 episode, the final installment of Scenes Beyond the Western Border, the narrator's imaginary traveling companion "Frank" quotes well known lines from James Thomson's The Seasons - Summer, slightly altered ("their minds" replacing Thomson's "her mind" or "his mind" in some anthologies).
                              — ' the smallest part
Exceeds the narrow visions of their minds.' "