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- Added on: Sep 28th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Richard II, Act I, Scenes 2 and 3
Duchess of Gloucester: 'That which in mean men we entitle patience / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.' (I.2.33-34)Bolingbroke: 'For Mowbray and myself are like two men / That vow a long and weary pilgrimage' (I.3.48-49).Bolingbroke to Gaunt:O...
Moby-Dick, Chapters 43 to 46
From 'The Chart':And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a particular time and place where attained, when all possi...
Moby-Dick
From "Going Aboard":'"Did ye see anything looking like men going towards that ship a while ago?"''Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin.' --I suppose we are meant to think of Queequeg's idol enshrined in the fireplace. ...
Moby-Dick
The painting in the entryway of the Spouter-Inn:The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over...
Paradise Lost, Book I
Learn by doing: 'and till then who knew / The force of those dire Arms?' (93-94)'since by Fate the strength of Gods / And this Empyreal substance cannot fail' (116-117).Satan's size compared to the bulk of Leviathan:[...] or that Sea-beastLeviathan, ...
Moby-Dick
"The Chapel" is the weakest chapter so far. Much of the prose feels perfunctory and stale:'I fought my way against the stubborn storm.''A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.''Each silent worshipper seemed purpos...
