Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small... Herman Melville - Page 128by John Freeman - 1926 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herman Melville - Adventure stories - 1892 - 576 pages
...one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power ; how then can this one small heart beat ; this one small brain think thoughts ; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power ; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts ; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the... | |
| John Freeman - Authors, American - 1926 - 232 pages
...his eye beholds, and cries, " Let faith oust fact ; let fancy oust memory ; I look deep down and dq believe " ; while Stubb, still irrepressible, leaps...and this one small brain think thoughts, unless God docs that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I ? For God is in all and beneath... | |
| Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Fiction - 1988 - 304 pages
...lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself . . . how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I ? By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate " Some... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...what sense he has any identity at all. His later statement—"how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I"(545.14-16)—would seem to be a development of the question as worded in A. Furthermore, the repetition... | |
| Catherine H. Zuckert - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power, how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not 1" (p. 445). Since he cannot discover the final cause, Ahab concludes that all is fated. The man whose... | |
| Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not L ... And all the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea! Look! see yon Albicore! who put... | |
| Joan Burbick - History - 1994 - 368 pages
...like the sun and the stars, moved by some "invisible power:" How "then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the... | |
| Nancy Fredricks - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 174 pages
...nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the... | |
| Christopher Sten - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 108 pages
...power" that rules over all. Though he senses that his own heart could not beat nor his brain think "unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I," he is so jealous of his own power, so egotistical, that he 77 SOUNDING THE 78 SOUNDING THE WHALE is... | |
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