Moby Dick, or the Whale || By Herman Melville || Chapter 000 || Quotes Pin

 

Moby Dick, or the Whale || By Herman Melville || Chapter 000 || Quotes Pin

Moby Dick or the whale by Herman Melville prologues emology supplied by a late consumptive Usher to a grammar school the pale Usher threadbear and coat heart body and brain I see him now he was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars with a queer handkerchief mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world he loved to dust his old grammars it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality quote while you take in hand to school others and to teach them by what name a whalefish is to be called in our tongue leaving out through ignorance the letter H which almost alone maketh the signification of the word you deliver that which is not true hackit quote whale Swedish and danish haval this animal is named from roundness or rolling for in Danish haval is arched or vaulted Webster's Dictionary quote whale it is more immediately from the Dutch and German valin anglosaxon valvan to roll to wallow Richardson's dictionary Kos Greek Kus Latin H anglosaxon haval Danish Val Dutch Swedish V Icelandic whale English balain French balena Spanish pikii Fiji piki Nui arom manguin extracts supplied by a Sub sub librarian it will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grubworm of a poor devil of a subub appears to have gone through the long vatic and Street stalls of the earth picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever sacred or profane therefore you must not in every case at least take the higgledy piggledy whale statements however authentic in these extracts for veritable gospel cetology far from it as touching the ancient authors generally as well as the poets here appearing these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said thought fancied and sung of Leviathan by many nations and generations including our own so Fare Thee Well poor devil of a subub whose commentator I am thou belongs to that hopeless salow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm and for whom even pale Sherry would be too Rosy strong but with whom one sometimes times loves to sit and feel poor devilish too and grow convivial upon tears and say to them bluntly with full eyes and empty glasses and in not altogether unpleasant sadness give it up subbs for by how much the more pains you take to please the World by so much more shall you forever go thankless would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the tarries for you but gulp down your tears and high a lot to the Royal Mast with your hearts for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven storied heavens and making refuges of long pampered Gabriel Michael and Raphael against your coming here you strike but splintered hearts together there you shall strike unspin glasses extracts quote and God created great whales Genesis quote Lev ithan maketh a path to shine after him one would think the Deep to be Hy job quote now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah Jonah quote there go the ships there is that Leviathan whom thou has made to play therein Psalms quote in that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan The piercing serpent even Leviathan that crooked Serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea Isaiah quote and what things soever besides cometh within the chaos of this Monster's mouth be it Beast boat or stone down it goes all incontinently that foul great swallow of his and perisheth in the bottomless Gulf of his Ponch Holland's plutarch's morals quote the Indian Sea breth the most and biggest fishes that are among which the whales and whirlpools called belena take up as much in length as four acres or Arpin of land Holland's plyy quote scarcely had we preceded two days on the sea when about Sunrise a great many whales and other monsters of the sea appeared among the former one was of a most monstrous size this came towards us openmouth raising the waves on all sides and beating the sea before him into a foam took Lucian the true history quote he visited this country also with a view of catching horse whales which had bones of very great value for their teeth of which he brought some to the king the best whales were catched in his own country of which some were 48 some 50 yards long he said that he was one of six who had killed 60 in two days other or ur's verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King Alfred a. 890 quote 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 gudon retires into it in Great security and there sleeps montain apology for raymon saond quote let us fly let us fly old Nick take me if it's not Leviathan described by the noble Prophet Moses in the life of the patient job rabes quote this whale's liver was two cartloads stow's annals quote the great Leviathan that maketh the Seas to seee like boiling pan Lord Bacon's version of the Psalms quote touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or orc we have received nothing certain they grow exceeding fat in so much that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale IID history of life and death quote the sovereignist thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise King Henry quote very like a whale Hamlet which to secure no skill of leech's art Mo him a veil but to return again to his wounds worker that with lowly Dart denting his breast had bred his Restless pain like as the wounded whale to shore flies through the man the fairy queen quote immens as whales the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil Sir William davenant preface to gandert quote what spermaceti is men might justly doubt since the Learned hos Manus in his work of 30 years saith plainly nesio quid seit sir T brown of spermaceti and the spermaceti whale VA his ve quote like Spencer's Talis with his modern flail he threatens ruin with his ponderous taale their fixed javelins in his side he wears and on his back a Grove of Pikes appears Waller's Battle of the summer Islands quote by Art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or state in Latin kitas which is but an artif official man opening sentence of hobbs' Leviathan quote Silly Man soul swallowed it without chewing as if it had been a Sprat in the mouth of a whale Pilgrim's Progress quote that Sea Beast Leviathan which God of all his works created Huges that swim the ocean stream Paradise Lost quote there Leviathan hugest of living creatures in the Deep stretched like a Promontory sleeps or swims and seems a moving land and at his gills draws in and at his breath spouts out a sea IID quote 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 quote so close behind some Promontory lie the huge Leviathan to attend their prey and give no chance but swallow in the fry which through their gaping Jaws mistake the way dren's Anis mirabus quote while the whale is floating at the stern of the ship they cut off his head and tow it with the boat as near the shore as it will come but it will be a ground in 12 or 13 ft water Thomas edges 10 voyages to spitsbergen in purchase quote in their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean and in wanness 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 call quote 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 Shen's sixth circumnavigation quote we set sail from the Elba wind Northeast 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 mass to see whether they can see a whale for the first Discoverer has a Ducket for his pains I was told of a whale taken near Shetland that had above a barrel of herrings in his belly one of our harpooners told me that he caught once a whale in spitsbergen that was white all over a voyage to Greenland a. 1671 Harris call quote several whales have come in upon this Coast 5 ano 1652 W 80 ft in length of the whalebone kind came in which as I was informed besides a vast quantity of oil did afford 500 weight of baline the jaws of IT stand for a gate in the garden of piten Cal's F and Kinross quote myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this spermaceti whale for I could never hear of any of that sort that was killed by any man such as his fierceness and swiftness Richard stra 's letter from the Bermudas philosophical transactions a. 1668 quote whales and the Sea God's voice obey NE primer quote we saw also abundance of large whales there being more in those Southern Seas as I may say by 100 to one than we have had to the northward of us Captain C's voyage round the globe ad 1729 quote and the breath of a whale is frequently attended with such an insupportable smell as to bring on a disorder of the brain Ula South America quote to 50 chosen sils of special note we trust the important charge the pedote of we have known that Sevenfold fence to fail though stuffed with hoops and armed with ribs of whale rape of the lock quote if we compare land animals in respect to magnitude with those that take up their Abode in the Deep we shall find that they will appear contemptible In the comparison the whale is doubtless the largest animal in creation Goldsmith Natural History quote if you should write a fable for little fishes you would make them speak like great whales Goldsmith to Johnson quote in the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock but it was found to be a dead whale which some asiatics had killed and were then Towing ashore they seemed to Endeavor to conceal themselves behind the whale in order to avoid being seen by us Cook's voyages quote the larger whales they seldom venture to attack they stand in great dread of some of them that when out at Sea they are afraid to mention even their names and carry dung Limestone Juniper wood and some other articles of the same nature in their boats in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach unovon Troy's letters on Banks's and cander Voyage to Iceland in 1772 quote the spermaceti whale found by the nanas is an active Fierce animal and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen Thomas Jefferson's whale Memorial to the French minister in 1778 quote and pray sir what in the world is equal to it Edmund burk's reference in Parliament to The Nantucket whale fishery quote Spain a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe Edmund Burke somewhere quote a tenth branch of the king's ordinary Revenue said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the Seas from Pirates and robbers is the right to Royal Fish which are whales and sturgeon and these when either thrown ashore are caught near the coast are the property of the king Blackstone quote soon to the sport of death the crews repair Rodman uniring or his head suspends the the barbed steel and every turn attends falconer's shipwreck quote bright shown the roofs the domes the spires and rockets blew self-driven to hang their momentary fire around the Vault of heaven so fire with water to compare the ocean serves on high up spouted by a whale in air to express unwieldy Joy cper on the Queen's visit to London quote 10 or 15 gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with immense velocity John Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale a small-sized one quote the aorta of a whale is larger in the boore than the main pipe of the Waterworks at London Bridge and the water roaring in its Passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart paly theology quote the whale is a mamiferos animal without hind feet Baron cier quote in 40° South we saw spermaceti whales but did not take any till the 1st of May the sea being then covered with them colet's voyage for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fishery quote in the free element beneath me swam floundered and dived in play in Chase in battle fishes of every color form and kind which language cannot paint and Mariner had never seen from dread Leviathan to insect Millions peopling every wave gathered in shes immense like floating islands led by mysterious instincts through that waste and trackless region though on every side assaulted by voracious enemies whales sharks and monsters armed in front or jaw with swords Saw's spiral horns or hooked fangs Montgomery's World Before the Flood Io payan Io sing to the finny people's King not a mightier whale than this in the vast Atlantic is not a fatter fish than he flounders round the polar sea Charles Lamb's Triumph of the whale quote in the year 1690 some persons were on a High Hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other when one observed there pointing to the sea is a green pasture where our children's grandchildren will go for bread Obed Macy's history of Nantucket quote I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a Gateway in the form of a Gothic Arch by setting up a whale's jawbones Hawthorne's twice told Tales quote she came to bespeak a monument for her first love who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific Ocean no less than 40 years ago ibid quote no sir is a right whale answered Tom I saw his spout he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at he's a real oil butt that fell Cooper's pilot quote the paper were brought in and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that Wales had been introduced on the stage there ean's conversations with girtha quot my God Mr Chase what is the matter I answered we have been stove by a whale Narrative of the Shipwreck of the whal ship Essex of Nantucket which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean by Owen Chase of Nantucket first mate of said Vessel New York 1821 quote a mariner sat in the shrouds one night the wind was piping free now Bright Now dimmed was the Moonlight pale and the phosphor gleamed in the wake of the whale as it floundered in the sea Elizabeth Oaks Smith quote the quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the C capture of this one whale amounted all together to 10,440 yards or nearly 6 English miles sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air which cracking like a whip resounds to the distance of 3 or four miles scoresby quote mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks the infuriated sperm whale rolls over and over he rears his enormous head head and with wide expanded Jaws snaps at everything around him he rushes at the boats with his head they are propelled before him with vast swiftness and sometimes utterly destroyed it is a matter of great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so interesting and in a commercial point of view so important an animal as the sperm whale should have been so entirely neglected or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous and many of them competent observers that of late years must have possessed the most abundant and most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes Thomas Beal's history of the sperm whale 1839 quote the Kelo sperm whale is not only better armed than the true whale Greenland or wri whale in possessing a formidable weapon at either extremity of its body but also more frequently displays a disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in a manner at once so Artful bold and mischievous as to lead to its being regarded as the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale tribe Frederick deel Bennett's whing voyage round the globe 1840 quote October 13 there she blows was sung out from the Mast head where away demanded the captain three points off the Lee bows sir raise up your wheel steady steady sir Mast head aoy do you see that whale now I I sir a sh of sperm whales there she blows there she breaches sing out sing out every time I I sir there she blows there there there she blows bow bows how far off 2 mil and a half thunder and lightning so near call All Hands J Ross Brown's etchings of a wailing Cruise 1846 quote the whale ship globe on board of which vessel occurred the horrid transactions we are about to relate belonged to the island of Nantucket Narrative of the globe by layi and hussy survivors ad. 1828 quote being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded he parried the assault for some time with a lance but the Furious monster at length rushed on the boat himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw that onset was inevitable missionary Journal of tyman and Bennett quote Nantucket itself said Mr Webster is a very striking and peculiar portion of the national interest there is a population of 8 or 9,000 persons living here in the sea adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry report of Daniel Webster's speech in the US Senate on the application for the erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket 1828 quote the whale fell directly over him and probably killed him in a moment the whale and his captors or the whaleman's adventures and the whale's biography gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore preal by Reverend Henry T chever quote if you make the least damn bit of noise replied Samuel I will send you to Hell life of Samuel commstock the mutineer by his brother William comto another version of the whaleship globe narrative quote the Voyages of the Dutch and English to the northern ocean in order if possible to to discover A Passage through it to India though they failed of their main object laid open the haunts of the whale mullock's commercial dictionary quote these things are reciprocal the ball rebounds only to bound forward again for now in laying open the haunts of the whale the whalan seem to have indirectly Hit Upon new Clues to that same Mystic Northwest Passage from something unpublished quote it is impossible to meet a whale ship on the ocean without being struck by her near appearance The Vessel under short sail with Lookouts at the Mast heads eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them has a totally different air from those engaged in regular Voyage currents and wailing us XX quote pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere May olct having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth either to form arches over gateways or entrances to alcoves uh and they may perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales Tales of a whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean quote it was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the Savages enrolled among the crew newspaper account of the taking and retaking of the whip hobamack quote it is generally well known that out of the cruise of wailing vessels American few ever return in the ships on board which they departed crews in a whaleboat quote suddenly a mighty Mass emerged from the water and shot up perpendicularly into the air it was the whale Miriam coffin or the whale fisherman quote the whale is harpooned to be sure but bethink you how you would manage a powerful unbroken Colt with the mere Appliance of a rope tied to the root of his tail a chapter on wailing in ribs and trucks quote on one occasion I saw two of these monsters whales probably male and female slowly swimming one after the other within less than a stone's of the shore Tiara del Fuego over which the beach tree extended its branches Darwin's voyage of a naturalist quote Stern all exclaimed the mate upon turning his head and saw the distended jaws of the large sperm whale close to the head of the boat threatening it with instant destruction Stern all for your lives Wharton the whale killer quote so be cheery my lads let your hearts never fail while the Bold harpon ear is striking the whale Nantucket song quote Oh the rare old whale mid storm and Gale in his ocean home will be a giant in might where might is right and King of the boundless sea whale song end of prols.