...masterat-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd, and the...Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belied Billy rolling along the upper gun-deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing...

...master-at-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...disdain — disdain of innocence — to be nothing but innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of...

...master-at-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...of innocence — -to be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it. the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain...

...justification than the Gnostic position. 42 Seeing Billy for what he is, he must condemn that quality: "And the insight but intensified his passion, which...at times assumed that of cynic disdain, disdain of innocence—to be nothing more than innocent!" (p. 78). This gnosticizing of innocence furnishes Claggart...

...masterat-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...of innocence — to be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain...

...master-at-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...of innocence — to be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain...

...master-at-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd, and the...disdain of innocence. To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain...

...master-at-arms was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...disdain, disdain of innocence — to be nothing more than innocenti Yet in an aesthetic way he saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it,...

...master-at-artns was perhaps the only man in the ship intellectually capable of adequately appreciating the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd. And the...passion, which assuming various secret forms within htm, at times assumed that of cynic disdain, disdain of innocence — to be nothing more than innocent!...