 ... mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts;...  moby-dick or the whale - Page 143by herman melville - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1928 - 534 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts : if I shall endow that workman's arm with some ethereal light : if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, then just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear... | |
 | 1918 - 982 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light ; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! " This, no doubt, is rhetoric, but it persuades us, as surely as the simplest language, that undestroyed... | |
 | Valerie Bonita Gray - African Americans in literature - 1978 - 168 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! . . . Thou who didst hurl him upon a warhorse;... | |
 | James Boggs - History - 1978 - 324 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out of it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind.... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which has spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous...Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle ot humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic Ciod! who didst not refuse to... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...castaways, 1 shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces ... if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set...spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! (104-105) According to this passage, Starbuck's battle is the battle to enthrone democracy and to unseat... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1992 - 548 pages
...at times lilt himself to the exalted mounts if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; dien against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread... | |
 | Sea stories, American - 120 pages
...of apostrophe to address absent beings or abstract concepts. In an elevated style, he speaks to the "just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all." This apostrophe is not unlike Homer's or Milton's asking the Muses for divine inspiration. Melville... | |
 | William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...that he will sing Nor is it the tragic muse that he will apostrophize, but the "Spirit of Equality,"58 which "hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!" (p. 1 17). Since even the democratic impulse can, as we have seen all too frequently in the dismal... | |
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