英语听书《白鲸记》 第2期
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So fare thee well,poor devil of a Sub Sub,whose commentator1 I am.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 rosy2 strong;but with whom one sometimes loves to sit,and feel poor devilish,too;and grow convivial3 upon tears;and say to them bluntly,with full eyes and empty glasses,and in not altogether unpleasant sadnessGive it up,Sub Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world,by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp4 down your tears and hie aloft to the royal mast with your hearts;for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven storied heavens,and making refugees of long pampered5 Gabriel,Michael,and Raphael,against your coming.Here ye strike but splintered hearts togetherthere,ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses!
EXTRACTS.
And God created great whales.GENESIS.
Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him;One would think the deep to be
hoary6.JOB.
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.JONAH.
There go the ships;there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.
PSALMS7.
In that day,the Lord with his sore,and great,and strong sword,shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent,even Leviathan that
crooked8 serpent;and he shall
slay9 the dragon that is in the sea.ISAIAH
And what thing soever besides cometh within the
chaos10 of this monster's mouth,be it beast,boat,or stone,down it goes all incontinently that
foul11 great swallow of his,and perisheth in the bottomless
gulf12 of his paunch.HOLLAND'S PLUTARCH'S MORALS.
The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are:among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene,take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.HOLLAND'S PLINY.
Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea,when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea,appeared.Among the former,one was of a most
monstrous13 size .... This came towards us,open mouthed,raising the waves on all sides,and beating the sea before him into a
foam14.TOOKE'S LUCIAN.THE TRUE HISTORY.
He visited this country also with a view of
catching15 horse whales,which had bones of very great value for their teeth,of which he brought some to the king .... The best whales were catched in his own country,of which some were forty eight,some fifty yards long.He said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days.OTHER OR OTHER'S VERBAL
NARRATIVE16 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.
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