I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was... Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale - Page 170by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pagesFull view - About this book
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear ! CHAPTER XLI. MOBY DICK. I, ISHMAEL, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the...; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear! Chapter 41 MOBY DICK IISHMAEL, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up ,with...because of the dread in my soul. A wild, mystical, sympathctical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greed}' ears I learned the... | |
| William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...magnet!" (p. 368). When Ahab enlists his crew to join him in his vengeful search, Ishmael says that "a wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine" (p. 155). It is from this compelling magnetism that Ishmael must escape if he is to survive. 25. Viktor... | |
| Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 244 pages
...life to bringing Moby Dick low. The scene is engrossing, terrifying. Ishmael says of it: I, Ishmael, was one of that crew, my shouts had gone up with the rest....A wild, mystical, sympathetic feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear! Chapter 4 Moby Dick I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the...me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears 1 learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our... | |
| Ronald E. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 424 pages
...enough of a self-observer to see what had happened to him and to understand something of the cause: "a wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our... | |
| Per Winther - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 236 pages
...also becomes obsessed with Ahab's purpose. After the quarter-deck episode he exclaims: "I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the...feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine" (179). There is, then, a close spiritual kinship between Ishmael and Ahab, as there is between Jonathan... | |
| William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...lines of Michael Herr's Dispatches, "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there":29 "I, Ishmael, was one of that crew,- my shouts had gone up with the rest, my oath was wedded with theirs, and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of... | |
| Christopher Sten - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 108 pages
...quarterdeck ceremony wherein Ahab impels his men to join in the hunt for the White Whale, "I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine." The "dread"... | |
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