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Acushnet admiration adventures Ahab Ahab's American Athenæum Battle-Pieces beauty Benito Cereno Billy Budd Blake boat brother Captain Delano Cereno chapter Clarel Confidence-Man crew cries death England English eternal eyes father feel flogging Gansevoort genius harpoon Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Herman Melville imagination infinite island Israel Potter J. A. SYMONDS Jack Chase later less letter Leviathan light living London Long Ghost look lyrical Mardi Marquesas Melville's mind Moby-Dick Mocha Dick mother mysterious narrative native natural never novel Omoo Pacific Paradise passages passion Pequod Peter Gansevoort phrase Piazza Tales pleasant poems poetry praise pride prose published R. H. Dana readers Redburn rhythm sailed sailor satire says scene seemed ship Sir LESLIE STEPHEN soul speaks spirit Stone Fleet story strange suppressions Taji things thought tion Toby touch Typee verse volume voyage whale White Jacket writing written wrote Yillah York
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Page 92 - And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Page 53 - What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot.
Page 123 - Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! T/ius, I give up the spear!
Page 93 - God has predestinated, mankind expects, great things from our race ; and great things \ve feel in our souls. The rest of the nations must soon be in our rear. We are the pioneers of the world ; the advance guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours.
Page 150 - The last seen of lone Hunilla she was passing into Payta town, riding upon a small gray ass; and before her on the ass's shoulders, she eyed the jointed workings of the beast's armorial cross.
Page 145 - The heart of the eternal pyramids, it seemed, wherein, by some strange magic, through the clefts, grass,seed, dropped by birds, had sprung. Strangely huddled at the base of the wall, his knees drawn up, and lying on his side, his head touching the cold stones, I saw the wasted Bartleby.
Page 134 - Billy stood facing aft. At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance, were these: "God bless Captain Vere!
Page 146 - As at last the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel, while yet some inches separated from the hull, harshly grated as on a sunken coral reef. It proved a huge bunch of...
Page 56 - His nose is straight and rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility and emotion. He is tall, and erect, with an air free, brave and manly. When conversing, he is full of gesture and force, and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace, nor polish. Once in a while, his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression, out of these eyes to which I have objected; an indrawn...
Page 132 - Contrary to the effect intended, these words so fatherly in tone, doubtless touching Billy's heart to the quick, prompted yet more violent efforts at utterance...