Youth and Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 339 էջ |
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... believe , purpose of bringing it home to the minds and bosoms of the readers . There it was no longer a matter of sincere colouring . It was like another art altogether . That sombre theme had to be given a sinister reso- nance , a ...
... believe , purpose of bringing it home to the minds and bosoms of the readers . There it was no longer a matter of sincere colouring . It was like another art altogether . That sombre theme had to be given a sinister reso- nance , a ...
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... believe , like an animal that won't leave a stable falling in an earth- quake . So we went to look for him . It was chancing death , since once out of our lashings we were as exposed as if on a raft . But we went . The house was ...
... believe , like an animal that won't leave a stable falling in an earth- quake . So we went to look for him . It was chancing death , since once out of our lashings we were as exposed as if on a raft . But we went . The house was ...
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... believe it ? The wind came east right in our teeth . It blew fresh , it blew continuously . We had to beat up every inch of the way , but she did not leak so badly , the water keeping comparatively smooth . Two hours ' pumping in every ...
... believe it ? The wind came east right in our teeth . It blew fresh , it blew continuously . We had to beat up every inch of the way , but she did not leak so badly , the water keeping comparatively smooth . Two hours ' pumping in every ...
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... believe , lunched , dined , and supped in a swell place in Regent Street , and was back to time , with nothing but a complete set of Byron's works and a new railway rug to show for three months ' work . The boat - man who pulled me off ...
... believe , lunched , dined , and supped in a swell place in Regent Street , and was back to time , with nothing but a complete set of Byron's works and a new railway rug to show for three months ' work . The boat - man who pulled me off ...
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... believe they know what is safe or what is good for them , any more than you or I. ' " And after some more talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated , being in fact no greater than that of men . " The story of the ...
... believe they know what is safe or what is good for them , any more than you or I. ' " And after some more talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated , being in fact no greater than that of men . " The story of the ...
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Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Հատոր 26 Joseph Conrad Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1903 |
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Էջ 37 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death...
Էջ 150 - If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be.
Էջ 41 - ... of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred along the shore, and the brown roofs of hidden houses peeped through the green foliage, through the big leaves that hung shining and still like leaves forged of heavy metal. This was the East of the ancient navigators,...
Էջ 138 - I said with emphasis. He started, dropped on me a cold heavy glance, said very quietly, 'He WAS/ and turned his back on me. My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.
Էջ 155 - I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind.
Էջ 48 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze...
Էջ 118 - He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, "must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings - we approach them with the might as of a deity," and so on, and so on. "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,
Էջ 93 - When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality — the reality, I tell you — fades. The inner truth is hidden — luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same ; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for — what is it ? half a crown a tumble " " Try to be civil, Marlow," growled a voice, and I knew there was at least one listener awake besides...
Էջ 152 - Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.
Էջ 156 - 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.