 ... 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, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1072 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.... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscermble form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually Hitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 254 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...came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Wickliffs sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 396 pages
...soul, pervading mankind and nature; . . . every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscemible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive...people the soul by continually flitting through it. ... There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gentle rolling ship; by her,... | |
 | Russell Reising - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 396 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 WicklifFs sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
 | Robert Kirschten - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 294 pages
...half-seen, gliding beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly discovered, uprising fin of some discemable form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive...people the soul by continually flitting through it . . . But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at... | |
 | Geoffrey Sanborn - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 274 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.... | |
 | Grant Hildebrand - Architecture - 1999 - 208 pages
...If we seek a mood at all in such a setting, it is likely to be that of Melville's mastheader, whose "spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space," or that "serene and blessed mood" recalled by Wordsworth in which The Onrin-do, Katsura, Kyoto, 1620-45.... | |
 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...thoughts by the rhythm of the sea, and so he merges with the all. "In this enchanted mood," he says, "thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space. . . ." Or, as Emerson had said of a similar experience, "I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the... | |
 | Sanford E. Marovitz, A. K. Christodoulou, Athanasios C. Christodoulou - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 630 pages
...at 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...came: becomes diffused through time and space: like Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at least a part of every shore the round globe over.... | |
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