 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 of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 135Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 էջ
...evidently much later, in an unsteady handy maj be regarded as the exposition of a method. It . was Tery simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every...was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valaable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sensecame to himself, he repeatedly entreated... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 էջ
...scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady Jjand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. I It was very simple, and at the end of that moving...of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutesTj The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...was very simple, and at the end of that * moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at I* you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Ejyt,PTminfite all thpi brutes!' Thecurii? ous part was that he had apparently forgotten all about... | |
 | 1900 - 874 էջ
...'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...he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postcriptum, because, later on, when he In a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - 1973 - 580 էջ
...populated and overpopulated by savages — an explanation of the madness which grasped and illuminated them like "a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes.' " 1 This answer resulted in the most terrible massacres in recent history, the Boers' extermination... | |
 | Joel Kovel - 1984 - 368 էջ
...unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of the moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment, it blazed...lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!' "51 And he and many others made a fair start, in the row of sacrificed native heads impaled in front... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1988 - 326 էջ
...tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence [ie, the unbounded will-to-style]. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" (50-51) Viewed one way, Conrad's anti-imperialist story clearly condemns Kurtz's murderous, imperialist... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 էջ
...notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. . . It was very simple, and at the end of that moving...he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of "my pamphlet."6 In this context of parody it is possible, I think, to register a foreboding about the ultimate... | |
 | Rob Nixon - 1992 - 240 էջ
...populated and overpopulated by savages—an explanation of the madness which grasped and illuminated them like "a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes'." 19 Yet Arendt is also content to mobilize Kurtz in defining the motives and character of a diametrically... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 էջ
...the 'International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs', Marlow is shocked when he finds 'at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes'" (HD 51, italics mine). Here the notion of altruism, which the Victorians cherished so greatly, and... | |
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