...magnificent ; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. " And we men also...

...magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal bod}' of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking...

...something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly on the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness,...the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her pensively, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. Like...

...magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...edge. Her face had a tragic and fierce aspect of wild SOMOW and of dumb pain mingled with the fear of some struggling, half -shaped resolve. She stood looking...

...was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And In the sudden hush that had fallen upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness,...the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her as though it had been looking at the image of Its own tenebrous and passionate soul. "And we men also...

...magniloquence, often so absurd to English ears, imported out of Polish and French. 'And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.'* It is scarcely possible for an English writer to produce a sentence as inflated as this (nine adjectives,...

...suddenly . . . the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life [of the land] seemed to look at her as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. [62] Like Haggard's Ayesha, She is "wild and gorgeous," "tragic and fierce"; like Haggard's Ayesha,...

...magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. (135—36) Endowed with all the darksome splendor Conrad can conjure up, she is both regal and mysterious....

...his colleagues on the deck of the Nellie, swinging at anchor in the Thames: "And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul." The native woman has come from the mysterious other that Kurtz has visited, and the narrative encourages...

...such conclusive evidence that the heart of darkness is the sexuate mother: "And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (101). Subsequently, however, I have come to see her not as the culmination of the opening of the vaginal...