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" ... and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part... "
Herman Melville - Page 124
by John Freeman - 1926 - 200 pages
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 366 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullep white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...
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Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics

Harry Slochower - Myth in literature - 1970 - 376 pages
...hopeful portent: The sky-hawk is nailed to the Pequod by Tashtego's hammer. The bird goes down with the ship which, "like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven with her, and helmeted herself with it." Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces notes that...
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Invisible Man's Literary Heritage: Benito Cereno and Moby Dick

Valerie Bonita Gray - African Americans in literature - 1978 - 168 pages
...with her: "And so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along...
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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1072 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmetcd herself with it. Epilogue 'And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." Job. THE drama's done....
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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird ot heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part ot heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Epilogue "And I only am escaped alone to tell...
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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
...depth-grasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks . . . went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it" (469). In the years following Moby-Dick, Melville remained a student of mob action and a conservative...
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Moby Dick

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1992 - 548 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and hel meted herself with it Now small fowl flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf, a sullen white surf...
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Moby Dick: Or the Whale

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1996 - 644 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangclic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not smk to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with...
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On Burning Ground: A Son's Memoir

Michael Skakun - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 264 pages
...its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood . . . and with archangelic shrieks . . . went down with his ship, which like Satan, would not sink to hell till she dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it." littoral frontiers,...
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Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place

Louis Owens - Social Science - 2001 - 292 pages
...imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folding in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Thus the "submerged savage" takes the doomed bird of heaven down into the center of the great naturalistic...
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