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pautifiiilar'Ofyi 'Bogey of ’Captaih * Ahab; r Among all'* the trhdiexbi A tab has * devotee!1 hinkelf -to* the destruction-of Mlt;bhy Dick. 1 A'dozen rol times'faftr hie given him‘battte; aaoften^as Mohy Dick bden'the cphqueror, and id the kist airqifgle,'lit a gale off tCape Horhv‘ tn^ whaie has smashed ht^awiailautV- le$£into'a' jelly, This irijury'iresults in ^deli* riumfr*frhtoh drivesAhah iaif ly out of’tris Wisest Thenceforth* W slajy Moby Dick is hisWnisfeianinthe World; ‘ All hii rbeihgt all; his energies,' hlkliis soul* !hre, as* it \pere,toeltedand fiised into-'one lundying mas^of intensdst hate for Moby-Dick; To kill Moby Dickiand then die ia all he wkntb^-vengeance, vengeanceofa Moby Dick, is burning the very life out of him 5 givh him thav vengeance, and even, as some: spirit whose task te riccompliahed vanishes from the night, so Captain Ahah will become void and silent, and be heard of no more. • lt;.t | | .1 be'acknowledged that there are tine poetic ele-n t^is vcphceptibn; v JWld and extravagant as it Is, Kfib woujd ^qngly move us, were it not that the iniphaity of the conception is continually impaired by theconstattt rigmhtolh rhapsodies placed in the- mondnvanitic’sibdbthV.4. littlb of t^is/sort of 'Would- b well in' Char a^d-mVgfi|:belt;,tnade very effective 5 but 'pages; and chapters of it becopie 6imply tedious.’ A mode} -speech °f C?aptain: Ahab,s, however* the reader shall have. - He has nailed' a golden doubloon to the nmst', to be the jropertyMofotfall rhb'cW4«?eyt him xr the hunt:
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London Atlas
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Nov 01, 1851
Page 6
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