 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...him mad." — " And the miser-mermim, Wisdon, revealed [to a diving negro] his hoarded heaps ; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities,...it ; and therefore his shipmates called him mad." The story itself is a strange, wild, furibund thing — about Captain Ahab's vow of revenge against... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...his passive eyes ; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps ; and among the j oyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the armament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. :Ie saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke... | |
 | Charles Child Walcutt - 380 pages
...God's foot upon the treadle of the loom," down deep in the sea of reality, and he spoke to it and knew it, "and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So...man's insanity is heaven's sense," and wandering from mortal reason, man comes "at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic."... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1981 - 608 pages
...glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities,...him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wondering from all mortal reason; man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is... | |
 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - Novelists, American - 1982 - 446 pages
...down alive to wondrous depths . . . among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip . . . saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad." Thus, "from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was."... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 196 pages
...to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, 37 Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities,...spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. (Chap. 93) Melville meditates his way into his subject, complicating his understanding not only of... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 188 pages
...turn to pearls, or to something similarly hard, to diamonds or coral perhaps (we are told that he sees "coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs" [95:530]). Whether or not Melville had that line from The Tempest ("Those are pearls that were his... | |
 | Branimir M. Rieger - Social Science - 1994 - 248 pages
...and will become enmeshed by the line in the same manner. Like Ahab, Pip in his suffering "saw Cod's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore this shipmates called him mad." And so ("reasons" Melville) "man's insanity is heaven's sense; and... | |
 | Christopher Sten - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 108 pages
...miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile 59 eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent,...the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates SOUNDING called him mad (414). THE More than any other character in the book, Pip knows that the soul... | |
 | Christopher Sten - Fiction - 1996 - 388 pages
...miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile 193 eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent,...the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates Mobycalled him mad (414). Dick More than any other character in the book, Pip knows that the soul and... | |
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He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. 
