On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale - Page 534by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pagesFull view - About this book
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main. The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their...after her missing children, only found another orphan. FINIS. Printed in Great Britain by Hatcll, Watson &. ViHty, Ld., London and Aylesbury. "' " '" ' "... | |
| Raymond Melbourne Weaver - Authors, American - 1921 - 446 pages
...Ishmael." "Call me Ishmael," is the striking opening sentence of Moby-Dick; and its no less striking close: "On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious cruising Rachel, that in retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."... | |
| Michael T. Gilmore - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 192 pages
...cape from an ocean grave is a coffin, and the last words he utters reaffirm his identity as an orphan: "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing...after her missing children, only found another orphan" (p. 724). In its equivocal reaction to the literary work as an article of commerce, Melville's masterpiece... | |
| William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...epilogue strikes a melancholy note in the way Ishmael describes his being fished from the sea: "// was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing...after her missing children, only found another orphan" (p. 470). The sense of rootlessness and loneliness in Ishmael is strong here, but reverberating as... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main. The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their...after her missing children, only found another orphan. TINIS Editorial Appendix HISTORICAL NOTE TEXTUAL RECORD RELATED DOCUMENTS For WILLARD THORP LEON HOWARD... | |
| Bruce Leonard Grenberg - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 254 pages
...the "Epilogue" — the Rachel who, "weeping for her children, because they were not" (MD, 128:436) "in her retracing search after her missing children. only found another orphan" ( "Epilogue" :470). It is this orphan who tells the tale. Moby.Dick, It is this Ishmael. the surviving... | |
| Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub - Literary Collections - 1992 - 324 pages
...up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main ... On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked...after her missing children, only found another orphan. [MD, 573] De Man's future is foreshadowed, enigmatically and paradoxically, by both the destinies of... | |
| William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their...mouths, the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed heaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and pick me up at last. It was the devious-cruising... | |
| Mae Henderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 224 pages
...has governed my scattered readings: In which case, call me Ishmael, and rename this deliberation as the "devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing...her missing children, only found another orphan." NOTES I . ST Coleridge, Biographta Literaria: Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions,... | |
| Edward L. Widmer - History - 1998 - 305 pages
...consanguinity or look, with those antiquated, stiff-cravated personages. —Democratic Review (1852) It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing...after her missing children, only found another orphan. — Melville, Moby-Dick Tragedy and Farce In 1852, reflecting on the failure of the revolution in France,... | |
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