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" 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 170
by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pages
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moby-dick or the whale

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...
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)

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...
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Melville's Later Novels

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...
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Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature

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...
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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

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...
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European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance

Larry J. Reynolds, Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts Larry J Reynolds, W. Michael Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 232 pages
...on the other.) Ishmael, excited and incited by Ahab like all the others, explains himself by saying, "My oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger...and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul" (155). And when the chase for Moby Dick is under way, Melville again uses the image of the hammer in...
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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in ...

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...
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The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration

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...
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The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for ...

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...
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Sounding the Whale: Moby-Dick as Epic Novel

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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