...Omoo Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventu... ... Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...upon at once; and as the whole body is to be more or less embellished by a process so slow, 27 Melville the studios alluded to are constantly filled.... ...n the canvas, and the ship heading right out into the immense blank of the Western Pacific. The watch were asleep. With one foot resting on the rudder... ...dying in his oven. Baltimore’s tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night. Poor fellow! he was altogether too good-natur... ...g, as it were from the ocean. These would appear to be islands in the very process of creation—at any rate, one involuntarily concludes so, on beholdi... ... out anyone getting into trouble. Still they told us, up and down, that if peaceable means failed, they would seize Little Jule, and carry her into Pa... ...way of the beach. Taloo, the only frequented harbour of Imeeo, lies on the western side of the island, almost directly over against Martair. Upon one ... ...le, you would have to run hack to your old place again. Safely passing the Sahara, or Fiery Desert, we soothed our half-blistered feet by a pleasant w...

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...MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Port... ...Faerie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean til it boil.” —Sir William Davenant. Prefac... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...r thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world. But we did not go to slee... ...y from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.* Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is ... ...at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through. There is a s... ...is hab- its, the French call him requin. 188 Moby Dick Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prai... ... hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the ...

Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscr... ...Fairie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.” Sir William Davenant. Prefac... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zo... ...r thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world. But we did not go to slee... ...y from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession. 1 Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is... ...at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through. There is a s... ...spell; but God’s great, unflattering laureate, Nature. 2 Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prai... ... hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the ...