Quote topic: Ocean & Wonder
Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.
Often misquoted as “and not a drop to drink.” The slash marks a line break. First published in Lyrical Ballads (1798); wording checked against the revised text in the Gutenberg edition.
[T]he sea has never been friendly to man. At most…
The quotation begins mid-sentence in the source; the bracketed capital marks that change.
Then leaving the Cape Verde Islands out of sight astern,…
Source wording preserved exactly.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever…
Spoken by the narrator, Ishmael. The ellipsis marks clauses omitted from the middle of one long sentence; the opening and closing wording is exact.
Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded…
Spoken by the narrator, Ishmael. The source spells “every one” and “for ever” as two words.
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so…
The source reads ‘absolute nothing,’ not the frequently circulated ‘absolutely nothing.’