A gentle joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished F.uropa clinging to his graceful horns! his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth... Great Sea Stories - Side 148redigeret af - 1921 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1852 - 1202 sider
...valley of his steady wake; and, on either hand, bright bubbles arose and danced by his side. . . . A gentle joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale, and thus through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea Moby Dick moved on, still withholding... | |
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 sider
...of the nameless thing that they pursue ; he is the sensuous symbol of nature's beauty and terror : A gentle joyousness, a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness invested the white whale. ... No wonder there had been some among the hunters who, namelessly transported and allured... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 sider
...perched and rocked on this polo, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons. A gentle joyousness—a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the...horns ; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon tha maid ; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete ; not... | |
| David Herbert Lawrence - 1923 - 282 sider
...shimmering like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail-feathers streaming like pennons. "A gentle joyousness — a...of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale " The fight with the whale is too wonderful, and too awful, to be quoted apart from the book. It lasted... | |
| Harry Slochower - 1970 - 376 sider
...projecting from his back. The sight recalls to Melville the myth of Jupiter carrying Europa: . . . the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished...rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete. The White Whale is the disguised form of the hermaphroditical mystery.20 Ahab invades the "man-like... | |
| Michael Rogin - 1985 - 374 sider
...such a grand object of desire is beyond his reach. It may be "a grand god" of the pagan world—"the white bull Jupiter, swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns." (412) Refusing to be the submissive Job who accepts God's power, Ahab will end as the ravished Europa... | |
| Philip Young - 2010 - 177 sider
...exalted above nature by a crazy captain/tragic hero. Visibly a god from the reader's first closeup: "Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns ... not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely... | |
| Herman Melville - 1992 - 548 sider
...fish, silendy perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons. A gende joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness,...fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete;355 not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified white whale as he so... | |
| Douglas Robillard - 1997 - 244 sider
...incarnate in a snow- white bull" (189) and to the first view of the white whale, which contrasts him with "the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns" (548), may be at least partially indebted to the Veronese Rape of Europa, though Gretchko (Loomings... | |
| David Herbert Lawrence - 1998 - 404 sider
...shimmering like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail-feathers streaming like pennons. A gentle joyousness — a...of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale — * The fight with the whale is too wonderful and too awful, to be quoted apart from the book. It... | |
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