 She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and 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 body of the fecund and...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 154Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1899 - 1284 էջ
...land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of 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 looked at her— at any rate I looked at her. She came abreast of the steamer, stood... | |
 | 1914 - 780 էջ
...immense wilderness, the colossal body of 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 a shade from another world the picture of this savage woman flashes into Marlow's mind as he sits... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 էջ
...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...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... | |
 | 1900 - 874 էջ
...land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of 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 looked at her; at any rate I looked at her. She came abreast of the steamer, stood... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 էջ
...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...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,... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1991 - 482 էջ
...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,... | |
 | David Galef - 1993 - 252 էջ
...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...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.... | |
 | Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 էջ
...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...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... | |
 | Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 էջ
...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...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... | |
 | Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 էջ
...Moreover, the gaze here seems present in the wilderness itself: "the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (76). The threatening nature of the wilderness and its arousal of drives toward alien jouissance is... | |
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