... and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part... Moby Dick - Page 533de Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Joseph Lewis French - 1921 - 366 pages
...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullep white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upward, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, whiclv.Uke,Satan, Vould not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her,... | |
| Harry Slochower - 1970 - 376 pages
...hopeful portent: The sky-hawk is nailed to the Pequod by Tashtego's hammer. The bird goes down with the ship which, "like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven with her, and helmeted herself with it." Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces notes that... | |
| Valerie Bonita Gray - 1978 - 168 pages
...a relic of heaven with her: "And so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1072 pages
...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmetcd herself with it. Epilogue 'And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." Job. THE drama's done.... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 pages
...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird ot heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part ot heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Epilogue "And I only am escaped alone to tell... | |
| Sharon Cameron - 1991 - 188 pages
...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. (135:722-23) That meaning is inseparable from objects is not, however, what we think as we try to get... | |
| Sanford E. Marovitz, A. K. Christodoulou, Athanasios C. Christodoulou - 2001 - 630 pages
...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a livingpart of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it" (572, emphasis mine). Tashtego does... | |
| Louis Owens - 2001 - 292 pages
...imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folding in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Thus the "submerged savage" takes the doomed bird of heaven down into the center of the great naturalistic... | |
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