Flying Dutchman

"Tell him the one about the captain who went crazy and imagined he was the Flying Dutchman."

The said company being now relieved from further attendance, and the chief Barnacles being rather hurried (for they had it in hand just then to send a mail or two which was in danger of going straight to its destination, beating about the seas like the Flying Dutchman, and to arrange with complexity for the stoppage of a good deal of important business otherwise in peril of being done), went their several ways; with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.

Here a second inscription informed me that the painter considered the Flying Dutchman to be no other than the Wandering Jew, pursuing his interminable Journey by sea.

The Flying Dutchman, with a crew of ghostly clients imploring all whom they may encounter to peruse their papers, has drifted, for the time being, heaven knows where.

She might have been the very Flying Dutchman, so foul, draggled, and unkempt was every rope and stick aboard.

Why continue the story of that ship, that story before which, with its fresh-water pump like a spring of death, its man with the weapon, the sea ruled by iron necessity, its spectral band swayed by terror and hope, its mute and unhearing heaven?- the fable of the Flying Dutchman with its conven tion of crime and its sentimental retribution fades like a graceful wreath, like a wisp of white mist.

Add to that the stunning chorus it boasts, and you have a Flying Dutchman which packs so many punches in its impact.

In a surprise display of mental dexterity, Frances managed a polite giggle while simultaneously wearing a worried "Who the hell is the Flying Dutchman? Should I know who the Flying Dutchman is?" look on her face.

Weber debuted successfully as Elsa at In direct connection to the Bayreuth Festival, I had the role of Senta in " The Flying Dutchman" under direction of Thorsten Fischer in Klagenfurt.

The Impact of the Ninth on "The Flying Dutchman," 3.

In the legend of the Flying Dutchman (popularized by Wagner's opera of 1843) the cursed ghost ship of a captain who's committed an unforgivable crime is compelled by God to sail the seas forever and never reach its port.