Moby-Dick or, The Whale / Моби Дик, или Белый кит. Книга для чтения на английском языке

And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.”

В В В В Blackstone.

“Soon to the sport of death the crews repair:

Rodmond unerring o’er his head suspends

The barbed steel, and every turn attends.”

В В В В Falconer's Shipwreck.

“Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires,

And rockets blew self driven,

To hang their momentary fire

Around the vault of heaven.

So fire with water to compare,

The ocean serves on high,

Up-spouted by a whale in air,

To express unwieldy joy.

В В В В Cowper, On the Queen's Visit to London.

“Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.”

В В В В John Hunter's Account of the Dissection of a Whale. (A small-sized one.)

“The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.

В В В В Paley's Theology.

“The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.”

В В В В Baron Cuvier.

“In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.”

В В В В Colnett's Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Spermacetti Whale Fishery.

“In the free element beneath me swam,

Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle,

Fishes of every colour, form, and kind;

Which language cannot paint, and mariner

Had never seen; from dread Leviathan

To insect millions peopling every wave:

Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands,

Led by mysterious instincts through that waste

And trackless region, though on every side

Assaulted by voracious enemies,

Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or jaw,

With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.

В В В В Montgomery's World before the Flood.

“Io! Pæan! Io! sing,

To the finny people's king.

Not a mightier whale than this

In the vast Atlantic is;

Not a fatter fish than he,

Flounders round the Polar Sea.”

В В В В Charles Lamb's Triumph of the Whale.