Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale... New Voices in American Studies - Page 13edited by - 1966 - 165 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of nil those malicious agencies which... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in pis frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...the first /f fatal encounter, when he had lost his leg, "Ahab had . cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies .which... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 218 pages
...encounter, when he had lost his leg, "Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all s the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 232 pages
...his leg, " Ahab haa cHcrished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more lell for thatTn his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes^but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. ^ The White Whale swam before him as the... | |
| Herman Melville - 1983 - 1470 pages
...doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which... | |
| Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 pages
...generated out of his own subjectivity. As Ishmael observes, the Captain "came to identify with [Moby Dick], not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. ... He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole... | |
| Richard H. Brodhead - 1990 - 267 pages
...intense that it achieves a fusion of previously separate things, makes Ahab "identify with [the whale], not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations." (989) As if still struggling to grasp this notion Melville runs through every way he can think of to... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1072 pages
...doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his...all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 pages
...doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identity with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.... | |
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