All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — 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... Queen's Quarterly - Page 1271900Full view - About this book
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...most vast, but hollow." " Vengeance on a dumb brute ! " cried Starbuck, " that simply smote thee from blindest instinct ! Madness ! To be enraged with a...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall ? To me, the white whale... | |
| 1901 - 436 pages
...attempts to withstand him. " ' Vengeance on a dumb brute ! ' cried Starbuck, ' that simply smote thee from blindest instinct ! Madness ! To be enraged with a...Dick. God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death ! " The intermezzo of the various sailors on the forecastle which follows until the squall... | |
| Archibald MacMechan - 1914 - 328 pages
...stand on now. Aye, aye," he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; "aye, aye! it was that accursed White Whale...through the mask!" Then follows the wild ceremony of drink1ng round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to confirm Ahab's curse: "Death to Moby Dick.... | |
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 pages
...his imaginative puissance against Starbuck 's outraged amazement. All visible objects, man, are but pasteboard masks. But in each event, in the living...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask. How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall ? To me the white whale is... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 pages
...event—in the living act, the undoubted deed — there some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! How can the prisoner reach outside, except he thrust through the wall ?" The tale is not an allegory,... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning N thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from i behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, ' strike through the mask ! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall ? To me. the white whale... | |
| Patrick Francis Quinn - 1939 - 244 pages
...unknown but still reasoning 16. Moby Dick. I, 229-30. 17 Ibid., I.' 230-252. 18 Ibid.. II, 328. • thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is... | |
| Charles Child Walcutt - 380 pages
...monstrous proportions of evil in man and nature? The quest is described in Captain Ahab's famous speech: " 'All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks....unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the maskl How can the prisoner reach outside except by 104 thrusting through the wall? To me, the white... | |
| Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 pages
...man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth...its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If a man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1072 pages
...his chest," whispered Stubb, "what's that for? methinks it rings most vast, but hollow." thee from blindest instinct ! Madness ! To be enraged with a...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is... | |
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