 All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event— in the living act, the undoubted deed— there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike,...  moby-dick or the whale - Page 199by herman melville - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike...Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.... | |
 | Humanities - 1900 - 366 pages
...deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask !' ' Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to... | |
 | Animal welfare - 1901 - 436 pages
...deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! ' " Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to... | |
 | Archibald MacMechan - Dalhousie college and university, Halifax, N. S. - 1914 - 328 pages
...deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!" Then follows the wild ceremony of drink1ng round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to confirm... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...undoubted deed, there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike...Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him outrageous strength, with an incurable malice sinewing it.... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 528 pages
...act, the undoubted deed — there some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike...mask ! How can the prisoner reach outside, except he thrust through the wall ? " The tale is not an allegory, but it is so innately true that it has... | |
 | 1925 - 804 pages
...is that Moby Dick represents, against whatever is outside the wall within which mankind is hemmed. "How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall. To me, the whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there 's naught behind. But 'tis enough. He... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 826 pages
...there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its fcatures from buhind (he unreasoning mask. If 'man will strike, strike through...reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To tne, the White Whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's navght beyond. But... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quinn - 1939 - 244 pages
...229-30. 17 Ibid., I.' 230-252. 18 Ibid.. II, 328. • thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike...Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an Inscrutable malice sinewing it.... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1927 - 782 pages
...still reasoning thing puts forth the moldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If a man will strike, strike through the mask! How can...is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there is naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He taxes me; he heaps me; I see in his outrageous strength,... | |
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