Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Herman Melville Page B
Authors: Herman Melville
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Octher’s verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King Alfred. A.D. 890.
“And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.”
MONTAIGNE.— Apology for Raimond Sebond.
“Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.”
Rabelais.
“This whale’s liver was two cart-loads.”
Stowe’s Annals.
“The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.”
Lord Bacon’s Version of the Psalms.
“Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.”
Ibid. “History of Life and Death.”
“The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.”
King Henry.
“Very like a whale.”
Hamlet.
“Which to recure, no skill of leach’s art
Mote him availle, but to returne againe
To his wound’s worker, that with lovely dart,
Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine,
Like as the wounded whale to shore flies from the maine.”
The Fairie Queen.
“Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.”
Sir William Davenant. Preface to Gondibert.
“What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hofmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit .”
Sir T. Browne. Of Sperma Ceti and the
Sperma Ceti Whale. Vide his V.E.
“Like Spencer’s Talus with his iron flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail.
Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears,
And on his back a grove of pikes appears.”
Walter’s Battle of the Summer Islands.
“By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.”
Opening sentence of Hobbes’s Leviathan.
“Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.”
Holy War.
“That sea beast
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.”
Paradise Lost.
___ “There Leviathan,
Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,
And seems a moving land; and at his gills
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.”
Ibid.
“The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.”
Fuller’s Profane and Holy State.
“So close behind some promontory lie
The huge Leviathans to attend their prey,
And give no chace, but swallow in the fry,
Which through their gaping jaws mistake the way.”
Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis.
“While the whale is floating, at the stern of the ship, they cut off his head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen foot water.”
Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass.
“In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which nature has placed on their shoulders.
Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa.
Harris Coll.
“Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their ship upon them.”
Schouten’s Sixth Circumnavigation.
“We set sail from the Elbe, wind N. E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale. * * *
Some say the whale can’t open his mouth, but that is a fable. * * *
They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a
whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains. * * *
I was told of a whale taken near Hitland, that had above a barrel of herrings
“And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.”
MONTAIGNE.— Apology for Raimond Sebond.
“Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.”
Rabelais.
“This whale’s liver was two cart-loads.”
Stowe’s Annals.
“The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.”
Lord Bacon’s Version of the Psalms.
“Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.”
Ibid. “History of Life and Death.”
“The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.”
King Henry.
“Very like a whale.”
Hamlet.
“Which to recure, no skill of leach’s art
Mote him availle, but to returne againe
To his wound’s worker, that with lovely dart,
Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine,
Like as the wounded whale to shore flies from the maine.”
The Fairie Queen.
“Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.”
Sir William Davenant. Preface to Gondibert.
“What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hofmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit .”
Sir T. Browne. Of Sperma Ceti and the
Sperma Ceti Whale. Vide his V.E.
“Like Spencer’s Talus with his iron flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail.
Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears,
And on his back a grove of pikes appears.”
Walter’s Battle of the Summer Islands.
“By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.”
Opening sentence of Hobbes’s Leviathan.
“Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.”
Holy War.
“That sea beast
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.”
Paradise Lost.
___ “There Leviathan,
Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,
And seems a moving land; and at his gills
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.”
Ibid.
“The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.”
Fuller’s Profane and Holy State.
“So close behind some promontory lie
The huge Leviathans to attend their prey,
And give no chace, but swallow in the fry,
Which through their gaping jaws mistake the way.”
Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis.
“While the whale is floating, at the stern of the ship, they cut off his head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen foot water.”
Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass.
“In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which nature has placed on their shoulders.
Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa.
Harris Coll.
“Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their ship upon them.”
Schouten’s Sixth Circumnavigation.
“We set sail from the Elbe, wind N. E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale. * * *
Some say the whale can’t open his mouth, but that is a fable. * * *
They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a
whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains. * * *
I was told of a whale taken near Hitland, that had above a barrel of herrings
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