"Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire you made me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.” Musing: In this scene, Ahab...

"While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle,...

“'Aye, aye, men!'” cried Ahab. “'Look up at it; mark it well; the white flame but lights the way to the White Whale! Hand me those...

"At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the...

"Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure." Musing: The idea that...

“Well, well; I heard Ahab mutter, ‘Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears that I must play them, and no...

“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last,...

"Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live vividness but scorches...

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by...

"Then falling into a moment’s revery, Ahab again looked up towards the sun and murmured to himself: 'Thou sea-mark! thou high and mighty...