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" But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek... "
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New Essays on Moby-Dick

Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 196 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists! (Chap. 35) Ishmael cautions the visionary pantheist, caught in an Emersonian moment of "midday," the...
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Melville's Later Novels

William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...somehow falling into this state permanently and therefore losing his personal individual identity: "And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather,...more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!" (p. 140). To the seedsman, this other kind of extrarational experience is always tempting, false as...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...summer sea. no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!49 Obwohl das Melvillesche Menetekel Emersons kosmischen Optimismus nicht hätte schrecken...
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Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American Mind

David Ross Williams - History - 1987 - 306 pages
...is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back to you in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And...transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise forever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!28 If the Pantheists were not mindful of the horrors of the fear...
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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch, slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists! Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck (Enter Ahab: Then, all.) IT WAS NOT a great while after the affair of the...
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Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History

Gunther Barth - History - 1990 - 257 pages
...with nature while carelessly moving foot or hand and slipping "with one halfthrottled shriek . . . through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!"4 Melville's warning went untested by those nineteenth-century Americans who found in nature...
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The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration

Per Winther - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 236 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists! (159) The juxtaposition of these two sources puts Jonathan's — and Pym's — experience in a proper...
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Moby Dick

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1992 - 548 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one halfthrotded shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for...
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Form and Fable in American Fiction

Daniel Hoffman - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 396 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian...more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists! Such was the fate of Bulkington, the perfect shipmate with tragic wisdom in his eyes— 'Up from the...
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The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for ...

William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch, slip your hold at all, and your identity comes back in horror Over Descartian...more to rise for ever Heed it well, ye Pantheists! (P. 158, my emphasis) THE AMERICAN ADAM AND THE NAMING OF THE WHITE WHALE At this time in his forwarding...
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