Herman Melville

“ Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too ”

“ Waller's Battle of the Summer Islands.
"By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State— (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man." Opening sentence of Hobbes's Leviathan.
"Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale." Pilgrim's Progress.
"That sea beast
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream." ”

“ Ibid "History of Life and Death."
"The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise." King Henry.
"Very like a whale." Hamlet.
"Which to secure, no skill of leach's art
Mote him availle, but to returne againe
To his wound's worker, that with lowly dart,
Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine,
Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine."
The 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. Preface to Gondibert. ”

“ They seemed to endeavor to conceal themselves behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us." Cook's Voyages.
"The larger whales, they seldom venture to attack. They stand in so great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach." ”

“ Stowe's Annals.
"The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan." Lord Bacon's Version of the Psalms.
"Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale." ”

“ Schouten's Sixth Circumnavigation. "We set sail from the Elbe, wind N. E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale. * * *
Some say the whale can't open his mouth, but that is a fable. * * *
They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains.* * *
I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a barrel of herrings in his belly. * * *
One of our harpooneers told me that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over." A Voyage to Greenland, A.D. 1671. ”

“ He said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days." Other or Octher's verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King Alfred. A. D. 890.
"And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's (whale's) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps." Montaigne.—Apology for Raimond Sebond.
"Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job." Rabelais. ”

“ The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren." Sibbald's Fife and Kinross.
"Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness." Richard Strafford's Letter from the Bermudas.
Phil. Trans. A. D. 1668.
"Whales in the sea
God's voice obey."
N. E. Primer.
"We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us." ”