LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 10 pps

... MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 10 A Bosom Friend Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found ... entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard ... the inn. He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desi...

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... Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quahogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they

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... owned a score or two of well-saved dollars. But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and still

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... MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 22 Merry Christmas At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal ... starting for the voyage, Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as well as to all appearances

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... the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 24 The Advocate As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business ... Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.* *See subsequent chapters for something more on this head. Grant it, since you cite it; but say what...

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... enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 28 Ahab For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches ... motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this- and rightly ascribed it- to the fierce uniquene...

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... prudent isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales. ... with the one only and all- engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would the...

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... strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood. MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 42 The Whiteness of The Whale What the white whale was to Ahab, has ... in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity is most vividly hit by the French in the name they...

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... best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan. MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales I shall ere long paint ... made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes. Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled "A Voy...

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