Quotes Tagged With :elvil

And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which....

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the....

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes....

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is....

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion....

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death....

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call....

Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps....

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s....

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter....