 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 pages
...identifying with him not only all his bodily woes, but all his feelings of exasperation — 1853.] 52 [Sept., so that the White Whale swims before him "as the monomaniac...the most reasonable and cultivated creature of the ship's company. Starbuck and Stubb are both tiresome, in different ways. The book is rich with facts... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning ; to whose dominion even the modern Christians... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of nil those malicious agencies which some deep men feel...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning ; to whose dominion even the modern Christians... | |
 | 1892 - 664 pages
...personification of the selfdestructive spirit of Hatred and Revenge, while Moby Dick, the white whale, "swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...agencies which some deep men feel eating in them." To quote detached passages from a work of such ambitious conception and colossal proportions would... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1893 - 344 pages
...personification of the self-destructive spirit of Hatred and Eevenge, while Moby Dick, the white whale, " swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...agencies which some deep men feel eating in them." " The Whale" was dedicated to Hawthorne, and is thus referred to in his " WonderBook": "On the hither... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning ; to whose dominion even the modern Christians... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 232 pages
...only all his bodily woes^but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. ^ The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the T>egTnning"T"\ . aft~the~subtle demonisms of life... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...not.qnly_all.his.bpdily woes, bufaTt HislntellectuaTand spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those...left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the "Beginning . -. . an' the subtle demonisms of life... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quinn - 1939 - 244 pages
...henceforth! became the sole motive for his existence. He had come to see the white whale, swimming before him, "as the monomaniac incarnation of all...they are left living on with half a heart and half a being.... All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 pages
...Ahab, chasing "round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames" his own monstrous secret, "the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious...agencies which some deep men feel eating in them." All such fiction is mythic, in the same sense that Blake's Prophetic Books and Shelley's Prometheus... | |
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The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. 
