 ... takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible...  Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale - Page 153by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pagesFull view - About this book
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him ; every dimlydiscovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...came; becomes diffused through time and space ; like Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - Authors, American - 1921 - 446 pages
...strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...came ; becomes diffused through time and space; like Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over."... | |
 | 1925 - 804 pages
...every strange, halfseen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...people the soul by continually flitting through it. ... There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her,... | |
 | William A. Drake - Criticism - 1926 - 402 pages
...strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...people the soul by continually flitting through it. ... There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her,... | |
 | Van Wyck Brooks - American literature - 1927 - 268 pages
...abyss of an emotional mysticism. In these conditions, as Melville says, one loses one's identity, one's spirit "ebbs away to whence it came, becomes diffused through time and space." One ceases in the end even to desire the narrow house of art. "Until I was twenty-five," Melville wrote... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Wickliff's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 196 pages
...every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimlydiscovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...people the soul by continually flitting through it. (Chap. 35) The key word here is "and," that apparently innocent conjunction that links the "bottomless... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...strange, half-seen, gliding beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising, fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment...people the soul by continually flitting through it." While in "this enchanted mood," one's consciousness seems to become "diffused through time and space,... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Realexistenz des Individuums auflösenden Gefahr eines Absturzes in die von Ungeheuern wimmelnde See: In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence...came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes. forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
 | David Ross Williams - History - 1987 - 306 pages
...his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature. ... In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence...it came; becomes diffused through time and space. . . . But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at... | |
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