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" tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. "
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 472
edited by - 1925
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Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale

Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man ; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the others ; since...
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The London Mercury, Volume 3

Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...wall ? To me the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him outrageous strength, with an incurable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate ; and to be the white whale...
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moby-dick or the whale

herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...whale is that wall, shoved, near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. Ho tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him outrageous strength,...inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly_whajLl_hate ; and be the white whale ggent^ of"T5e theiwhite whale .principal. I will wreak...
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The Bookman, Volume 59

Book collecting - 1924 - 1042 pages
...godless chaos has wrought this havoc upon him, against whatever it is that Moby Dick is or represents. "That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me." "The prophecy was that I should be dismembered ; and — Aye...
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American Criticism

William A. Drake - Criticism - 1926 - 402 pages
...thrusting through the wall? To me, the whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught behind. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there...
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The American Mercury, Volume 10

George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1927 - 660 pages
...heaps me; I see in his outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inimitable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. Melville was anatomizing his own soul : his contempt for the...
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Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Beiblatt ..., Volumes 39-40

English philology - 1928 - 826 pages
...beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasJcs me; he heaps me; l see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutdble malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other . . . Breslau....
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The Fatalism of Herman Melville

Patrick Francis Quinn - 1939 - 244 pages
...wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in...whale principal, I will wreak; that hate upon him... There is ever a sort of fair play herein, Jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master,...
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The American Mercury, Volume 10

George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1927 - 782 pages
...me. Sometimes I think there is naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He taxes me; he heaps me; I see in his outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. Melville was anatomizing his own soul: his contempt for the herd,...
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Man's Changing Mask: Modes and Methods of Characterization in Fiction

Charles Child Walcutt - 380 pages
...wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other . . .'"...
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