 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 oldal
...Hark ye yet again, — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him... | |
 | 1900 - 366 oldal
...'Hark ye, yet again, — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask !' ' Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to... | |
 | 1901 - 436 oldal
...Hark ye, yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! ' " Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to... | |
 | Archibald MacMechan - 1914 - 330 oldal
..."Hark ye, yet again, — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!" Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to confirm... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 oldal
...puissance against Starbuck 's outraged amazement. All visible objects, man, are but pasteboard masks. But in each event, in the living act, the undoubted...me the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 oldal
...conquest of circumstance. "All visible objects, man," says Captain Ahab, "are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! How can... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 oldal
..."All visible objects, man," says Captain Ahab, "are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed — there some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! How can... | |
 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 oldal
...deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning N thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from i behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, '...the white whale is that wall, shoved, near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. Ho tasks me ; he heaps me ; I see in him... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1927 - 598 oldal
...phrase, is best explained in Captain Ahab's own words: All visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the moldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If a man will strike, strike through the... | |
 | 1925 - 804 oldal
...is that Moby Dick represents, against whatever is outside the wall within which mankind is hemmed. "How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall. To me, the whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there 's naught behind. But 'tis enough. He... | |
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All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. 
