 Though in general not very demonstrative to his officers, he had congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall.  Legitimacy in the Modern State - Seite 84von John H. Schaar - 1981 - 359 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Herman Melville - 2006 - 322 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the FalL As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to... | |
 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 1990 - 276 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall. . . . The foretopman s conduct, too, so far as it had fallen under the captain's notice, had confirmed... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1992 - 129 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall. As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-ofMan, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to... | |
 | Guy Davenport - 1997 - 404 Seiten
...unfallen Adam — "a fine specimen of the genus homo," as Captain Vere remarks to Lieutenant Ratcliffe, "who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall" — Orpheus, young Joseph, young David. As we see him he is everybody's companion, the exact opposite... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1998 - 468 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall. As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to... | |
 | Eliseo Colón Zayas - 1996 - 150 Seiten
...enough attracted the captain's attention from the first...such a fine specimen of the gemís homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall... Herman Melville Büfy Budd (1891) E. /L AVANCE TECNOLÓGICO de la modernidad capitalista propone continuamente... | |
 | Donald Yannella - 2002 - 172 Seiten
...imagery associating Billy with Adam. Only twelve leaves before, in a late pencil patch, Billy appears as one "who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall" (Chap. 18, leaf 208). Melville depicted not Claggart's fall from grace but his ontological devolution:... | |
 | Paul Giles - 2002 - 356 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall" (94); he subsequently recommends to the executive officer that Billy be promoted "to a place that would... | |
 | Herman Melville - 2004 - 516 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall. As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to... | |
 | Herman Melville - 2004 - 516 Seiten
...congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall. As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to... | |
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