tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 42

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 42 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 42 The Whiteness of The Whale What the white whale was to Ahab has been hinted what at times he was to me as yet remains unsaid. Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick which could not but occasionally awaken in any man s soul some alarm there was another thought or rather vague nameless horror concerning him which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to explain myself here and yet in some dim random way explain myself I must else all these chapters might be naught. Though in many natural objects whiteness refiningly enhances beauty as if imparting some special virtue of its own as in marbles japonicas and pearls and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue even the barbaric grand old kings of Pegu placing the title Lord of the White Elephants above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion and the modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger and the great Austrian Empire Caesarian heir to overlording Rome having for the imperial color the same imperial hue and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe and though besides all this whiteness has been even made significant of gladness for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings this same hue is made the emblem of many touching noble things- the innocence of brides the benignity of age though among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor though in many climes whiteness .