"Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary." -- Book of Job "This whale's liver was two cartloads." -- Stowe's Annals "Very like a whale" -- Hamlet "By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State -- (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man." -- Opening Sentence of Hobbes' Leviathan "There, Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea." -- Paradise Lost "To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important charge, the petticoat. Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, Tho' stiff with hoops and armed with bones of whale" -- The Rape of the Lock If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great whales." -- Goldsmith to Johnson "The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet." -- Baron Cuvier "So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!' -- Nantucket Song, Chapter List + Next Chapter