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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 3 - Pym |
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| "...I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and connected as to have the appearance of that truth it would possess..." |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 3 - Pym |
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| ...I could only hope for belief among my family, and those of my friends who have had reason, through life, to put faith in my veracity... |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 4 - Pym talking about Poe
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| ...insisting, with great plausibility, that however roughly, as regards mere authorship, my book should be got up, its very uncouthness, if there were any, would give it all the better chance of being received as truth. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 4 - Pym about Poe
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| ...for I found that, in spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that portion of my statement which appeared in the Messenger (without altering or distorting a single fact), the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fasle, and several letters were sent to Mr. __'s address distinctly expressing a conviction to the contrary. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity... |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 10 - Agustus
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| ...his conduct in bed had beent the result of a highly-concentrated state of intoxication--a state in which, like madness, requently enables the victim to imitate the outward demeanour of one in perfect possession of his senses. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 13 - Pym and Agustus
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| ...our deliverance seemed to have been brought about by two of those almost inconceivable pieces of good fortune which are attributed by the wise and pious to special interference of Providence. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 8 - Agustus' Idea
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| ...I felt a thrill of the greatest excitement and pleasure, and thought his mad idea one of the most delightful and most reasonable things in the world. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 18 - Agustus
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| It is strange, too, that he most strongly enlisted my feelings in behalf of the life of a seaman, when he depicted his more terrible moments of suffering and despair. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 102 - Pym about Cannibalism
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| May God forgive me, but now, for the first time, there flashed through my mind a thought, a thought which I will not mention, and I felt myself making a step towards the ensanguined spot. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 110 - Pym on madness
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| ...they would appear to revive suddenly, as if inspired all at once with a consciousness of their condition, when they would spring upon their feet in a momentary flash of vigour, and speak, for a short period, of their prospects, in a manner altogether rational, although full of the most intense despair. It is possible, however, that my companions may have entertained the same opinion of their own condition as I did of mine, and that I may have unwittingly been guilty of the same extravagances and imbecilities as themselves--this is a matter which cannot be determined. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 114 - Pym on strength of mind concerning cannibalism (about Peters and Agustus)
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| I had calculated that one at least of the two former would be found still possessed of sufficient strength of mind to side with myself in resisting any attempt to execute so dreadful a purpose; and, with the aid of either one of them, I had no fear of being able to prevent its accomplishment. |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allen Poe
page 210 - Tsalians
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| In truth, from everything I could see of these wretches, they appeared to be the most wicked, hypocritical, vindictive, bloodshirsty, and altogether fiendish race of men upon the face of the globe. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 5 - House description |
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| The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive, also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 6 - House description
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| With a brief sketch, therefore, of the circumstances amid which the foundation of the house was laid, and a rapid glimpse at its quaint exterior, as it grew black in the prevalent east wind--pointing, too, here and there, at some spot of more verdant mossiness on its roof and walls...there will be a connection with the long past--a refernce to forgotten events and personages... |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 29 - Clifford (miniature)
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| It is a likeness of a young man, in a silken dressing gown of an old fashion, the soft richness of which is well adapeted to the coutenance of reverie, with its full, tender lips, and of thought as gentle and voluptuous emotion. Of the possessor of such features we shall have a right to ask nothing, except that he he would take the rude world easily, and make himself happy in it. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 30 - Hepzibah
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| No; she never had a lover--poor thing, how could she?--nor ever knew, by her own experience, what love technically means. And yet, her undying faith and trust, her fresh remembrance, and continual devotedness towards the original of that miniature, have been the only substance for her heart to feed upon. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 31 - Col. Pyncheon
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| ...representing stern features of a Puritanic-looking personage, in a skullcap, with a laced band and a grizzly beard; holding a Bible with one hand, and in the other uplifting an iron sword hilt. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 52-3 - Judge Pyncheon
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| His gold-headed cane, too--a serviceable staff, of dark polished wood...One perceived him to be a personage of marked inluence and authority...his brow was too heavy, his temples too bare, his remaining hair too gray, his eye too cold, his lips too closely compressed, to bear any relation to mere personal beauty. He would have made a good and massive portrait... |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 31 - Hepzibah
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| Her scowl--as the world, or such part of it as sometimes caught a transitory glimpse of her at the window, wickedly persisted in calling it...had done her a very ill office, in establishing her character as an ill-tempered old maid; nor does it appear improbable that, by often gazing at herself in a dim looking glass, and perpetually encountering her own frown within its ghostly sphere, she had been led to interpret the expression almost as unjustly as the world did. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 63 - Pheobe
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| The young girl, so fresh, so unconventional, and yet so orderly and obedient to common rules, as you at once recognized her to be, was widely in contrast, at that moment, with everything about her...But even as a ray of sunshine, fall into what a dismal place it may, instantaneously creates for itself a propriety in being there, so did it seem altogether fit that the girl should be standing at the threshold. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 77 - Holgrave
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| ...he seemed to be a well-meaning and orderly young man...He had the strangest companions imaginable...reformers, temperance lecturers, and all manner of cross-looking philanthropists...she had reason to believe that he practiced animal magnetism, and, if such things were in fashion nowadays, should be apt to suspect him of studying the Black Art up there in his lonesome chamber. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 81 - Chanticler
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| ...[they] were now scarcely larger than pigeons, and had a queer, rusty, withered aspect, and a gouty kind of movement, and a sleepy clucking and clacking. It was evident that the race had degenerated, like many noble races besides, in consequence of too strict a watchfulness to keep it pure. These feathered people had existed too long in their distinct variety; a fact of which the present representatives, judging by their lugubrious deportment, seemed to be aware. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 102 - Clifford
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| The secret was that an individual of his temper can always be pricked more acutely through his sense of the beautiful and harmonious than through his heart. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 120 - Hepzibah suffering
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Truly was there something high, generous, and noble in the native composition of our poor old ___! Or else--and it was quite as probably the case--she had been enriched by poverty, developed by sorrow, elevated by the strong and solitary affection of her life, and thus endowed her with heroism, which never could have characterized her in what are called happier circumstances.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 140 - Uncle Venner to Clifford
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| "It does seem to me that men make a wonderful mistake in trying to heap up property upon property. If I had done so, I should feel as if Providence was not bound to take care of me; and at all events, the city wouldn't be! I'm one of those people who think that infinity is big enough for all of us--and eternity long enough." |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 141 - Pheobe to Uncle Venner
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| "But for this short life of ours, one would like a house and a moderate garden spot of one's own." |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 148 - Clifford and the rest of the world
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| With a shivering repugnance at the idea of personal contact with the world, a powerful impulse seized on ___, whenever the rush and roar of the human tide grew strongly audible to him. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 149 - Clifford
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| ...by its remoteness, it melts all the petty personalities, of which it is made up, into one broad mass of existence--one great life--one collected body of mankind, with a vast, homogeneous spirit animating it...a mighty river of life...It might so fascinate him that he would hardly be restrained from plunging into the surging stream of human sympathies. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 149 - Clifford
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| ...a lonely being, estranged from his race, but now feeling himself man again, by virtue of the irrepressible instinct that possessed him. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 149 - Clifford to Hepzibah
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"I hardly know...Fear nothing--it is over now--but had I taken that plunge, and survived it, methinks it would have made me another man!"
Possibly, in some sense, ___ may have been right. He needed a shock; or perhaps he required to take a deep, deep plunge into the ocean of human life, and sink down and be covered by its profoundness, and then to emerge, sobered, invigorated, restored to the world and himself. Perhaps, again, he required nothing less than the great final remedy--death! |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 151 - Clifford to Hepzibah
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| "Were I to be there it seems to me that I could pray once more, when so many human souls were praying all around me!" |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 158 - Pheobe
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| She was not so constantly gay, but had her moods of thought, which ___ on the whole, liked better than her former phase of unmingled cheerfulness; because now she understood him better and more delicately, and sometimes even interpreted him to himself. Her eyes looked larger and darker and deeper...She was less girlish than when we first beheld her alighting from the omnibus; less girlish, but more a woman. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 159 - Holgrave
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| But what was most remarkable, and, perhaps, showed a more than common poise in the young man, was the fact that, amid all these personal vicissitudes, he had never lost his identity. |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 161 - Holgrave
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| ...in his premature experience of life, wasted entirely that beautiful spirit of youth, which, gushing forth from one small heart and fancy, may diffuse itself over the universe, making it all as bright as on the first day of creation. Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mold into whatever shape he likes...He could talk sagely about the world's old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and therefore looked upon the world--that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit without being venerable--as a tender stripling, capable of being improved into all that it ought to be... |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 164 - Holgrave
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| "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? It lies up the Present like a giant's dead body! In fact, the case is just as if a young giant were compelled to waste all his strength in carrying about the corpse of the old giant...we must be dead ourselves before we can begin to have our proper influence on our own world of another generation, with which we shall have no shadow of a right to interfere." |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 190 - Holgrave
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| ...in his attitude there was the consciousness of power, investing his hardly mature figure with a dignity that did not belong to its physical manifestation. It was evident, that, with but one wave of his hand and a corresponding effort of his will, he could complete his hand and a corresponding effort of his will, he could complete his mastery over ___'s yet free and virgin spirit... |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 213 - Hepzibah to Judge Pyncheon
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| "Then, why should you do this cruel, cruel thing? So mad a thing, that I know not whether to call it wicked! Alas, __, this hard and grasping spirit has run in our blood these two hundred years. You are but doing over again, in another shape, what your ancestor before you did, and sending down to you posterity the curse inherited from him!" |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 277 - Holgrave
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| "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. I have a presentiment that, hereafter, it will be my lot to set out trees, to make fences--perhaps, even, in due time, to build a house for another generation--in a word, to conform myself to laws, and the peaceful practice of society. Your poise will be more powerful than any oscillating tendency of mine." |
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
page 285 - Holgrave
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| "...should not have felt the propriety of embodying so excellent a piece of domestic architecture in stone, rather than in wood. Then, every generation of the family might have altered the interior, to suit its own taste and convenience; while the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to permanence, which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 27 - Ishmael |
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| Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drissly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 29 - Ishmael as narrator
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| But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 30 - Ishmael as narrator
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| Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 50 - Ishmael about Queequeg
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Definition
| He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way...he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal...the human being just as I am. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 52 - Ishmael about Queequeg
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| You had almost thought I had been his wife. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 81 - Ishmael
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| I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 81 - Ishmael
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| I'll try a pagan friend, thought i, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy...we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 84 - Ishmael and Queequeg's relationship
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| ...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 92 - Queequeg's supposed thoughts
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| "It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 106 - about Captain Bildad
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| And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long nightwatches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 112 - Captain Peleg about Ahab
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| "He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man...doesn't speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen...[he's] above the common..." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 113 - Peleg about Ahab
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| "I know what he is--a good man--not pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing good man--something like me--only there's a good deal more of him." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 150 - about Starbuck
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| And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 153 - Stubb
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| ...against all mortal tribulations, ___'s tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 153 - Flask
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| So utter lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 185 - about Ahab
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| ...still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shaginess; and in this episode touching emperors and kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 197 - Ishmael narrating
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| With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I--being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude,--how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships' standing orders... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 198 - Ishmael narrating
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| There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. 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 horor. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 202 - Ahab
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| "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him...And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that (this will give it away) on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 203 - Starbuck
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| "Vengeance on a dumb brute! That simply smot thee from blindest instinct! Madness!" |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 203 - Ahab
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| "...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, strike throught the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?" |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 226 - Moby Dick (from Ahab's perspective)
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| [It] 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. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascrible one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 226 - about Ahab
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| He piled upon [it] the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 231 - Ishmael on whiteness
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| Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own...witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the tropics; what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent horrors they are? |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 233 - Ishmael about Moby Dick
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| ...that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 238 - Ishmael as narrator
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| Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 271 - about Queequeg
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| There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 314 - Ishmael on pictures of whales
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Definition
| The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight...and out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 326 - Ishmael on the sea
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| Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, uapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes...the universal cannibalism of the sea...then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 333 - Ishmael as narrator
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| All men live enveloped in whale-lines. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 348 - Cook to Stubb
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Definition
| "...but to gobern dat wicket natur, dat is de pint. You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 371 - about Gabriel
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| ...[he] solemnly warned the captain against attacking the White Whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God incarnated... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 436 - Ishmael as narrator
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| ...to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapour, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapour--as you will sometimes see it--glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts...Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 450 - Ishmael as narrator
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| But far beneath this wonderous world upon the surface, another and still stranger world met our eyes as we gazed over the side...and as human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the same time; and while yet drawing mortal nourishment, be still spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence..." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 478 - about Pip |
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| ...though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness particular to his tribe...[he] love life, and all life's peaceable securities... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 481 - about Pip
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| ...another lonely castaway, though the losftiest and the brightest...but the awful lonesomeness is intolorable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 481 - about Pip
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| Rather carried down alive to wondrous depth, where strange shapes of unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, reavealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, __ saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; therefore his shipmates called him mad. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 484 - Ishmael squeezing sperm
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| ...while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatever. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 493 - Ishmael on knowing the world
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| The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe...Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee...There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 498 - Ishmael about the doubloon
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| And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 499 - Ahab about the doubloon
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| "There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, an all other grand and lofty things; look here--three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is __; the volcano, that is __; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is __; all are ___..." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 500 - Starbuck about the doubloon
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| "A dark valley between three mighty, heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint earthly symbol. So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 500 - Stubb on the doubloon
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| "I'd not look at it very long ere spending it." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 502 - Flask on the doubloon
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| "I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever faises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him...and at two cents the cigar, that's nine hundred and sixty cigars." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 503 - Pip on the doubloon
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| "I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look." |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 593 - about Ahab
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| ...certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
page 621 - Ahab to Starbuck
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| "By the green land; by the bright hearth-stone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!--lower not when I do...That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!" |
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