They had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent... Opportunities in Merchant Ships - Էջ 26Nelson Collins - 1919 - 97 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| University of Pennsylvania - 1916 - 592 էջ
...described by a modern writer, Mr. Conrad, in one of his earlier books, "The Nigger of the Narcissus": "They had been strong, as those are strong who know...faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent these men as whining over every mouthful of their food; as going about their work in fear of their... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1916 - 240 էջ
...future, with his childlike impulses and his man's passions already dead within his tattooed breast. The men who could understand his silence were gone...the pale of life and within sight of eternity. They bad been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been im-' patient... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 254 էջ
...future, with his childlike impulses and his man's passions already dead within his tattooed breast. The men who could understand his silence were gone...the pale of life and within sight of eternity. They bad been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 200 էջ
...future, with his childlike impulses and his man's passions already dead within his tattooed breast. The men who could understand his silence were gone...been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts^noFEopesT They hacT~B~een impatieTlt~^n3'~eridurmg.~^rt>ulent anj ^SevoteoT, unruly^ and faithful.... | |
| Virginia Woolf - 1925 - 350 էջ
...obscurity, who were to Conrad the pick of our race, the men whose praises he was never tired of celebrating: They had been strong as those are strong who know...faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent these men as whining over every mouthful of their food, as going about their work in fear of their... | |
| Wilson Follett - 1915 - 136 էջ
...the forecastle above the sleeping crew. "The men who could understand his silence were gone—those men who knew how to exist beyond the pale of life and within sight of eternity. . . . They were the everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Their successors are the grown-up children of... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 էջ
...years, and since the age of twelve. He is the lonely relic of an earlier, heroic age of seamen, men who "had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes"; and he is specifically contrasted with the younger generation who compose the rest of the crew: "They... | |
| Adam Lively - 2000 - 306 էջ
.... . . Yet he was only a child of time, a lonely relic of a devoured and forgotten generation . . . The men who could understand his silence were gone...beyond the pale of life and within sight of eternity . . . Well-meaning people had tried to represent those men who knew toil, privation, violence, debauchery... | |
| Peter D. McDonald - 2002 - 248 էջ
...past and with no future', and as a consequence did not experience the torments of life in time. They 'knew how to exist beyond the pale of life and within sight of eternity'; and they 'had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes'. Whether as a consequence... | |
| Ishay Landa - 2007 - 340 էջ
...men who could understand his silence were gone. . . . They had been strong, as those are strong as know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient...enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. . . . [T]hey had been men who . . . knew not fear, and had no desire of spite in their hearts . . .... | |
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