 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
 | Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 sider
...and regeneration (the nursing mothers), and finally an awesome beauty which must command reverence. 'A gentle joyousness - a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness invested the gliding whale' - set this against the fretful, hindered gait of the crippled Ahab and it is irresistibly clear that... | |
 | Elmar Treptow - 2001 - 258 sider
...als er so göttlich verklärt in seiner Herrlichkeit durch die Wasser zog." „A gentle joyoussness - a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale... not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam".1... | |
 | Elmar Treptow - 2001 - 258 sider
...als er so göttlich verklärt in seiner Herrlichkeit durch die Wasser zog." „A gentle joyoussness - a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale... not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam".... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 724 sider
...the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons. 35 "A gentle joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale " The fight with the whale is too wonderful, and too awful, to be described apart from the book. It... | |
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