Template:RQ:Melville Redburn

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Redburn: His First Voyage (1st American edition, 1849); the 1st edition (London: Richard Bentley, 1849; →OCLC) is not currently available online. It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive and the English Wikisource.

• 1st American edition (1849).
• English Wikisource version.

The template takes the following parameters:

1st American edition (1849)

• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

English Wikisource version

• |1= or |chapter= – the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.

Both versions

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, “some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell”) rather than an actual use of it (for example, “we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset”), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

1st American edition (1849)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Melville Redburn|chapter=He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper|page=172|passage=Not knowing what "''swipes''" might be, I thought I would run the risk and try it; but it proved a miserable beverage, with a '''musty''', sour flavor, as if it had been a decoction of spoiled pickles.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Melville Redburn|He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper|172|Not knowing what "''swipes''" might be, I thought I would run the risk and try it; but it proved a miserable beverage, with a '''musty''', sour flavor, as if it had been a decoction of spoiled pickles.}}
• Result:
  • 1849, Herman Melville, “He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, page 172:

    Not knowing what "swipes" might be, I thought I would run the risk and try it; but it proved a miserable beverage, with a musty, sour flavor, as if it had been a decoction of spoiled pickles.

English Wikisource version

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Melville Redburn|chapter=XXXI|passage=At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat '''larger than life''', are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair.}}
• Result:
  • 1849, Herman Melville, chapter XXXI, in Redburn: His First Voyage. , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC:

    At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat larger than life, are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair.