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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this ... ...d, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commander Davies of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop of war Rattler on a whali...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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