The Works of Joseph Conrad, Հատոր 5W. Heinemann, 1921 |
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Joseph Conrad. One would think that I am the proper person to throw a light on the matter ; but in truth I find that it isn't so easy . It is pleasant to remember that nobody had charged him with fraudulent purposes or looked down on him ...
Joseph Conrad. One would think that I am the proper person to throw a light on the matter ; but in truth I find that it isn't so easy . It is pleasant to remember that nobody had charged him with fraudulent purposes or looked down on him ...
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... light , and you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck . On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow , and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger Bank ...
... light , and you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck . On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow , and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger Bank ...
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... lights burning bright , a great plashing of propellers , rattling of winches , and a lot of hailing on the pier- heads . I watched the procession of head - lights gliding high and of green lights gliding low in the night , when suddenly ...
... lights burning bright , a great plashing of propellers , rattling of winches , and a lot of hailing on the pier- heads . I watched the procession of head - lights gliding high and of green lights gliding low in the night , when suddenly ...
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... light of the lantern brought on deck to examine the sounding - rod I caught a glimpse of their weary , serious faces . We pumped all the four hours . We pumped all night , all day , all the week - watch and watch . She was working ...
... light of the lantern brought on deck to examine the sounding - rod I caught a glimpse of their weary , serious faces . We pumped all the four hours . We pumped all night , all day , all the week - watch and watch . She was working ...
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... light . Weeks slipped by . She crawled on , do or die , and people at home began to think of posting us as over- due . " One Saturday evening , I being off duty , the men asked me to give them an extra bucket of water or so for washing ...
... light . Weeks slipped by . She crawled on , do or die , and people at home began to think of posting us as over- due . " One Saturday evening , I being off duty , the men asked me to give them an extra bucket of water or so for washing ...
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Էջ 62 - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
Էջ 105 - The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence.
Էջ 50 - But for me all the East is contained in that vision of my youth. It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes on it. I came upon it from a tussle with the sea— and I was young— and I saw it looking at me. And this is all that is left of it! Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour— of youth!
Էջ 61 - I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences. "I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally...
Էջ 43 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more— the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men...
Էջ 73 - ... paddled by black fellows. You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening. They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks— these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted no excuse for being there. They were a great comfort to look at.
Էջ 110 - Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing/' Conceive you that ass! And he wants to be manager! No, it's - ' Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least bit. I was surprised to see how near they were - right under me. I could have spat...
Էջ 145 - By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' etc. etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence — of words — of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind...
Էջ 192 - She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning. It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn forever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.
Էջ 60 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.