 The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.  Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale - Page 176by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...— 1853.] 52 [Sept., so that the White Whale swims before him "as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...left living on with half a heart and half a lung." The amiable cannibal Queequeg occasions some stirring and some humorous scenes, and is probably the... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them ; but deliriously transferring its idea to... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1925 - 804 pages
...narrow-flowing monomania, has raised the white whale to a dignity which alone could justify this rage. "That intangible malignity which has been from the...whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the East reverenced in their statue devil; —... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...HislntellectuaTand spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...intangible malignity which has been from the "Beginning . -. . an' the subtle demonisms of life and thoughT" — it is this~and-these that haunt Ahab's .TTeart... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies .which some deep men feel...intangible malignity which has been from the beginning ... all subtle demonisms of life and thought" — it is this and these that haunt Ahab's heart as they... | |
 | John Freeman - Authors, American - 1926 - 232 pages
...and spiritual exasperations. ^ The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...That intangible malignity which has been from the T>egTnning"T"\ . aft~the~subtle demonisms of life and thought " — it this"and these that haunt Ahab's... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 218 pages
...intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. ThaJL-intaQgible Qjajignity which has been from the beginning ... all the subtle demonisms of life... | |
 | William A. Drake - Criticism - 1926 - 402 pages
...narrow-flowing monomania, has raised the white whale to a dignity which alone could justify this rage. "That intangible malignity which has been from the...whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the East reverenced in their statue devil ; —... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quinn - 1939 - 244 pages
...existence. He had come to see the white whale, swimming before him, "as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...they are left living on with half a heart and half a being.... All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 196 pages
...matter of doctrine but of manifest reality. The monster was real; it had assaulted him; and he saw in it "that intangible malignity which has been from the...modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds." Ahab enacts in his pursuit of Moby Dick the frenzy of mutual rage that God had ordained from the foundations... | |
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